Legal Opinion
State v. Amado
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided August 6, 1981No. 79-110-C.APublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.
This is an appeal by the defendant, Elizabeth Amado, from a conviction of second-degree murder by a jury of the Superior Court for Providence and Bristol Counties.
At approximately 9:30 p. m. on July 18, 1977, two police officers of the Providence police department responded to a call at 8 Harvard Avenue. There, in a second-floor apartment, they observed the victim, Joseph Amado, lying in a pool of blood while his wife, defendant Elizabeth, was straddling him. The defendant was apparently trying to stop the bleeding coming from a stab wound in the area of…
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