Mead v. Papa Razzi

OPINION

Justice ROBINSON

for the Court.

This case has previously occupied this Court’s attention. We analyzed the subject of the spoliation of evidence when the case was first before us, and in this opinion we will also be required to grapple with certain aspects of the sometimes elusive law of spoliation.

The first appeal in this case resulted in a remand for a new trial. Mead v. Papa Razzi Restaurant, 840 A.2d 1103 (R.I. 2004) (Mead I). A second jury trial now having been held, we are called upon at this time to review a judgment of the Superior Court in the plaintiffs’ favor pursuant to a jury…