Legal Opinion

State v. Diaz

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided February 20, 1995No. 93-676-C.APublishedCited by 35 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

LEDERBERG, Justice.

This case came before the Supreme Court on the appeal of Enid Diaz (defendant) from judgments of conviction on two counts of first-degree murder. After a jury trial in Superior Court, the defendant was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. On appeal the defendant argued that the evidence presented by the state was legally insufficient to sustain first-degree murder verdicts and that a statement she gave to police falsely implicating others as the killers should have been suppressed as the product of an illegal detention. We affirm the judgments for the reasons…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Berkemer v. McCartySupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Oregon v. MathiasonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  3. Stansbury v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  4. State v. CaruoloSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1987
  5. United States v. Raymond JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1975

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3Cited by35 opinions

  1. Wilson-Bey v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 2006
  2. State v. GarciaSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2000
  3. State v. OteroSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2002
  4. State v. SmithSupreme Court of Iowa · 1996
  5. State v. RosSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2009

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