Legal Opinion

State v. Evans

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided February 1, 1999No. 95-709-C.APublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

GOLDBERG, Justice.

This case represents what the trial justice described as the defendant’s obvious attempt to parlay his good fortune in one robbery case, which we overturned due to the state’s negligent failure to comply with discovery obligations, into the present case “by misleading the Supreme Court into believing that both cases had the same discovery failure and defect.” Having already remanded this case twice to the trial justice for his further consideration, we now conclude that the third time is not a charm for this defendant, and affirm his conviction. Because the posture of…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. United States v. BagleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  2. Kyles v. WhitleySupreme Court of the United States · 1995
  3. State v. BrownSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1987
  4. State v. EstradaSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1988
  5. Mastracchio v. MoranSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1997

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Powers v. StateSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1999
  2. State v. EvansSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1999
  3. Doctor v. StateSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2005
  4. Evans v. WallSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2006
  5. Deciantis v. StateSuperior Court of Rhode Island · 2007

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