State v. Robertson

OPINION

LEDERBERG, Justice.

This case came before the Supreme Court on a petition for certiorari in which the defendant, Jesse Lee Robertson, sought review of a judgment of convictions for robbery in the second degree and for two assaults with intent to commit murder. 1 The defendant argued that the robbery conviction should be reversed because the state failed to demonstrate that force, a necessary element of robbery as defined in Rhode Island, was used in the crime. The defendant further challenged all three convictions by arguing that the trial justice had erroneously permitted certain…