Legal Opinion
State v. Coelho
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided December 24, 1982No. 80-248-C.APublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SHEA, Justice.
On December 9,1977, a Providence County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging Peter J. Coelho with eight counts of embezzlement from the Rhode Island Housing Investment Fund and two counts of conspiring with Claire O’Coin to embezzle from the fund. Because of the illness of O’Coin’s attorney, the trial justice severed the cases, and Coelho proceeded to trial alone. The jury found Coelho guilty of five counts of embezzlement and two counts of conspiracy. On appeal Coelho claims that the trial justice abused his discretion by his refusal to grant his motion for a…
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