Legal Opinion
State v. Fortier
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided April 8, 1981No. 78-136-C.APublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MURRAY, Justice.
The defendant, Arthur Fortier (Fortier), was indicted by a Providence County grand jury on one count of embezzlement 1 and on another count of uttering and publishing a forged instrument. 2 Fortier’s pretrial motion to dismiss the second count was granted by a trial justice of the Superior Court. The matter proceeded to trial on the embezzlement count and the jury returned a guilty verdict. Fortier is now before us on appeal from the judgment of conviction.
Certain facts involved in this appeal are not in dispute. From 1970 to 1975 Fortier was employed by the state as a…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Klopfer v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- State v. PatriarcaSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1973
- United States v. John E. JonesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
- Tate v. HowardSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1972
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3Cited by19 opinions
- State v. AnthonySupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1982
- State v. VerrecchiaSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2001
- State v. TarvisSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1983
- State v. AdamsSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1984
- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1995
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