State v. Osborne S. Maloney (068877)

Judge RODRÍGUEZ

(temporarily assigned) delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case, the State alleged that defendant Osborne S. Maloney was part of a four-person conspiracy to commit a targeted armed robbery of a businessman at his home. The State’s theory of the case was that one man was the ringleader, another the driver of the getaway car, and defendant and the fourth man were the ones that executed the planned armed robbery, which went awry and resulted in the businessman being shot in the abdomen by defendant.

The four men were arrested shortly thereafter. One of the accused reached an…