State v. DiPrete

OPINION

BOURCIER, Justice.

This case comes before us on the state’s appeal from a Superior Court trial justice’s decision dismissing the extortion counts in an indictment returned by a state grand jury against the defendants, 1 and on the cross-appeal of the trial justice’s denial of the defendants’ motions to dismiss bribery counts contained in the same indictment. We sustain the state’s appeal and decline to consider the defendants’ cross-appeal.

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The defendants are Edward D. DiPrete and Dennis L. DiPrete. They will be collectively referred to in this opinion as the DiPretes.

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