Legal Opinion

State v. Rioux

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided March 17, 1998No. 97-270-C.APublishedCited by 36 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

2Per curiam

This appeal concerns the sufficiency of evidence to establish a probation violation when the complaining witness recants her prior inculpatory statements to the police concerning the defendant’s alleged misconduct. The defendant, Robert Rioux, appeals from a Superior Court adjudication finding him to be in violation of his probation relating to a host of prior criminal convictions and ordering him to serve seven years in prison on a previously suspended sentence and . twenty-eight months concurrently on another. The defendant appeals from the Superior Court’s judgment following a…

3Cases cited10 opinions

  1. State v. BourdeauSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1982
  2. Walton v. BairdSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1981
  3. In Re LamarineSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1987
  4. State v. OliveiraSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1990
  5. State v. OlsenSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1992

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4Cited by36 opinions

  1. State v. SylviaSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2005
  2. State v. CardonaSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2009
  3. State v. BouffardSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2008
  4. State v. WaiteSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2003
  5. State v. JensenSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2012

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