State v. Sivo

OPINION

GOLDBERG, Justice.

The defendant, John Sivo (Sivo or defendant), is a former law enforcement officer, having served with the Cranston Police Department as a patrolman for eleven years. In 1972, at the start of that career, Sivo undertook a solemn oath to uphold the law. On March 30, 1999, a jury convicted Sivo of the crime of perjury and he subsequently was sentenced to ten years at the Adult Correctional Institutions, five years to serve, the remainder suspended with probation. Sivo’s conviction is yet another installment of the long-running chronicle of the infamous “Golden Nugget”…