State v. Texieira

OPINION

Justice ROBINSON

for the Court.

On February 16, 2006, a jury found the defendant, Manuel Texieira, 1 guilty of the first-degree murder of one Edgar Ortega. On June 20 of that year, he was sentenced to the mandatory term of life imprisonment.

The defendant has appealed to this Court, contending: (1) that the trial justice erred in refusing to arrest the judgment of first-degree murder; (2) that the trial justice, erred in denying defendant’s motions for a judgment of acquittal; (3) that the trial justice erred in denying defendant’s motion for a new trial; and (4) that the trial justice…