State v. Gautier

OPINION

Justice SUTTELL, for the Court.

The defendant, Jacques Gautier, was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder and breaking and entering for surrep titiously entering his estranged wife’s apartment and killing her seventeen-year-old boyfriend, Jeffrey Indellicati. At the time of Mr. Indellicati’s death, Mr. Gautier and his wife were separated and there was a District Court “no-contact” order in effect as the result of a criminal charge pending against the defendant for assaulting his wife. The defendant appeals to this Court, arguing that the trial justice erred: (1) by allowing his…