State v. Willie Washington

Chief Justice Suttell, for the Court.

*46 The defendant, Willie Washington, was found guilty by a jury of four offenses in connection with a shooting that occurred in Providence on November 15, 2014. Following the denial of his motion for a new trial, the defendant was sentenced to a total of sixty years to serve, with twenty years of that sentence designated as nonparolable. On March 8, 2016, the defendant timely appealed from the judgment of conviction.

This appeal has traveled somewhat of an unusual course since it was docketed. Approximately one year after the appeal was filed, on April 28,…