State v. D'ALO

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

The defendant in this case, Edward D’Alo (D’Alo) was found guilty after a trial by jury in the Superior Court of conspiracy to commit robbery and kidnapping. He was given a ten-year sentence with four years suspended and four years probation.

In this appeal from his conviction he raises six separate issues. Three issues involve alleged errors in the trial justice’s instructions to the jury. Two errors are alleged in permitting evidence of other criminal conduct involving D’Alo to come before the jury. The final issue alleges that because bench conferences that occurred…