Legal Opinion
State v. Mastracchio
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided July 28, 1988No. 87-328-C.APublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FAY, Chief Justice.
On December 4, 1985, a grand jury composed of twenty people returned indictment No. Pl/85-3173 against the defendant, Gerald S. Mastracchio, charging him with the 1979 murder of Richard Valente (Ricky). A Superior Court jury found the defendant guilty of the murder in violation of G.L. 1956 (1981 Reenactment) § 11-23-1. Having denied the defendant’s motion for a new trial, the trial justice committed the defendant to the Adult Correctional Institutions for a mandatory life sentence. Section 11-23-2. The defendant, who was seventeen years old at the time of the…
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