Legal Opinion
State v. Dufresne
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided October 28, 1981No. 80-455-C.APublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SHEA, Justice.
The defendant, Alfred A. Dufresne, was granted a new trial by a justice of the Superior Court. The justice so ruled after a hearing on the defendant’s petition for postconviction relief pursuant to G.L.1956 (1969 Reenactment) §§ 10-9.1-1 — 10-9.1-9, as enacted by P.L.1974, ch. 220, § 3. The defendant had been tried for the murder of his wife; and at the close of the state’s case, he terminated the trial, pleaded guilty to the charge of murder in the second degree and received a sentence of forty years at the Adult Correctional Institutions with fifteen years suspended.…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Tollett v. HendersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Henderson v. MorganSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by23 opinions
- State v. FigueroaSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1994
- State v. MastracchioSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1992
- Brown v. MoranSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1987
- State v. D'ALOSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1984
- Gonder v. StateSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2007
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