Legal Opinion
State v. Peabody
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided June 16, 1992No. 91-195-C.APublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KELLEHER, Justice.
In the fall of 1988 a Newport County grand jury returned an indictment that charged the defendant, Robert Peabody (Peabody), with the murder of William Ca-puano (Capuano). After a two-week trial, the case was submitted to a jury on June 27, 1990. The following day the jury returned a verdict of guilty to a charge of first-degree murder. Peabody is now before us on appeal whereby he alleges that the trial justice committed several errors of law.
In considering this appeal, we encounter a novel situation in this jurisdiction. Peabody claims that he presently suffers from…
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