State v. Mastracchio

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This matter is before the Supreme Court on appeal for the second time. In the first appeal, State v. Mastracchio, 546 A.2d 165 (R.I.1988), we affirmed the defendant’s conviction of murder in the first degree in all respects except for the issue of whether the Superior Court had jurisdiction to try him for this offense.

The defendant, Gerald S. Mastracchio, Jr., was seventeen years of age at the time of the murder of Richard Valente (Valente), who was thirteen. The defendant was twenty-three years of age at the time he was charged, tried, and convicted. Prior to trial and…