State v. Gordon

OPINION

PAY, Chief Justice.

On September 30, 1983, following retrial, the defendant, David N. Gordon, Jr., was convicted of first-degree arson and conspiracy to commit arson. 1 The fire for which a Superior Court jury found the defendant culpable occurred on June 22, 1981. The conflagration destroyed Turilli's Furniture Company, which had been located on Warwick Avenue in Warwick, Rhode Island. The trial justice rejected the state’s recommendation of a twenty-five-year sentence, which consisted of fifteen years on the arson count to be served concurrently with ten years’ imprisonment for the…