State v. Matavale

Opinion of the Court by

MOON, C.J.1

On December 21, 2006, we accepted petitioner/defendant-appellant/cross-appellee Ije-va Matavale’s (Mother) timely application for writ of certiorari (application), filed on November 27, 2006, requesting that this court review the August 29, 2006 judgment of the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA), entered pursuant to the August 15, 2006 summary disposition order. Therein, the ICA affirmed the Family Court of the First Circuit’s 2 August 5, 2005 judgment, convicting Mother of and sentencing her for the offense of abuse of family or household members, in…