In re PAUL M.

REVISED OPINION

This matter was before the Supreme Court pursuant to an order issued to both the state and the defendant to appear and show cause why the issues raised in this appeal should not be summarily decided. In this case the defendant, a juvenile at the time of the incident, following a trial before a Family Court justice, was adjudicated delinquent in violation of G.L.1956 (1981 Reenactment) § 11-37-2, as amended by P.L.1987, ch. 238, § 1 and was sentenced to twenty-four months with eighteen months to serve at the Rhode Island Training School, followed by a suspended sentence of six…