State v. McWilliams

OPINION

Justice FLAHERTY,

for the Court.

On May 12, 2009, the defendant, Raymond McWilliams, was found guilty on one count of first-degree robbery and one count of assault with a dangerous weapon in a dwelling. In light of the defendant’s impressive criminal history, the trial justice sentenced him to life in prison for first-degree robbery, to be served consecutively to eleven-and-one-half years that previously had been executed because he was a violator of probation on a previously imposed sentence on a prior second-degree murder conviction. The defendant also was sentenced to life in prison…