State v. KEOGHAN

ORDER

On February 28, 2008, this Court granted the defendant Peter Keoghan’s petition for a writ of certiorari to review a District Court order which sustained the state’s appeal and reversed a decision of the Traffic Tribunal Appeals Panel (Appeals Panel). The Appeals Panel had affirmed a magistrate’s dismissal of the petitioner Keoghan’s breathalyzer refusal charge. At issue on certiorari is whether the District Court had jurisdiction to hear the state’s appeal from the Appeals Panel’s decision. This issue was recently decided in State v. Robinson, 972 A.2d 150 (R.I. 2009), where the Court…