State v. Werner

OPINION

FLAHERTY, Justice.

The defendant, Keith Werner, an inmate at Walpole State Prison in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, appeals to this Court from convictions for crimes committed in Rhode Island, for which he is to serve time upon the completion of his Massachusetts sentence. In December 1993, a jury returned guilty verdicts on two counts of robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, and carrying a pistol without a license, all stemming from a robbery of the West Warwick Credit Union. After denying Werner’s motion for a new trial, the trial justice imposed a sixty-year sentence, consisting…