Graziano v. Rhode Island State Lottery Commission, Pc1996-4076 (2001)

DECISION

After a twelve-day bench trial in this Open Meetings Act violation case, the Court finds the facts and concludes of law as follows. In rendering this decision, the Court considered all of the trial evidence. However, the Court's review of that evidence, as laid out herein, is not intended to be exhaustive. Where the Court notes that it finds a matter to be true or factual, or when it notes that it accepted some testimony as true or factual, this should be taken to mean that the Court finds that matter proven as fact.

The standard of proof applied by the Court to the trial evidence is…