State v. McLaughlin

OPINION

Chief Justice WILLIAMS,

for the Court.

The defendant, Raymond J. McLaughlin (defendant), appeals from an adjudication of a probation violation on two separate underlying cases. The hearing justice ordered the defendant to serve three years of a suspended sentence imposed after a plea of nolo contendere to a number of charges, including felony domestic assault (P2/08-1058A), and he continued probation in a second case (P2/03-1788A), in which the defendant pled nolo contendere to charges involving possession of a controlled substance. For the reasons set forth herein, we affirm the…