State v. Delestre

OPINION

Justice ROBINSON,

for the Court.

On December 4, 2008, a Providence County Superior Court jury found the defendant, Gilbert Delestre, guilty of second-degree murder and of conspiracy to commit the offense of murder. He was thereafter sentenced to consecutive terms of (1) life imprisonment at the Adult Correctional Institutions as a result of the second-degree murder conviction and (2) ten years at the same institution as a result of the conspiracy conviction.

On appeal, defendant contends that the trial justice erred in instructing the jury concerning the concept of aiding and abetting; he…