State v. Wiggins

OPINION

Justice SUTTELL,

for the Court.

The defendant, Russell Wiggins, appeals from a Superior Court judgment revoking his probation and ordering that he serve five of the seven and a half years remaining on his previously suspended sentence. For the reasons set forth in this opinion, we affirm the judgment of the Superior Court.

Facts and Procedural History

When Russell Wiggins appeared in Newport County Superior Court for a probation revocation hearing on August 9, 2005, the odds were not in his favor. The thirty-seven-year-old had a prodigious criminal record, spanning his entire adult life…