State v. Berker

The defendant stands convicted, after a Superior Court jury-waived trial, of a criminal complaint charging him with eluding a police officer, a violation of G. L. 1956 (1968 Reenactment) §31-27-4. His appeal is comprised of four issues of law, three of which have been previously decided by this court. The issues are raised by his bill of exceptions and a certified question of law that was certified to us by the trial justice.

The factual pattern giving rise to this appeal involves an incident that occurred in Warwick in the parking lot of a Dunkin Donut Shop sometime during the late evening of…