State v. Wright

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

Excited utterances of the defendant’s mother on the day of the murder, together with the present-sense impressions that she related during two telephone conversations with her friend, aided a Superior Court jury in finding the defendant, Wayne Wright (Wright or defendant) guilty of felony murder. The court sentenced him to serve not only a mandatory life sentence, but also, because of his status as a habitual offender, an additional twenty-five year consecutive sentence without the possibility of parole.

Wright argues on appeal that the trial justice erred when he…