State v. O'COIN

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by the state from a judgment of the Superior Court granting the defendant’s motion to quash the indictment in this case on the ground that the grand jury venire, from which the Providence County grand jury that indicted the defendant was selected, had excluded all members of the university and college academic community.

On August 1, 1979, this court decided the consolidated cases of State v. Jenison and State v. Cory, R.I., 405 A.2d 3 (1979). We there held that the exclusion of members of the college and university academic community from…