State v. Karen A. Connery

OPINION

Justice ROBINSON,

for the Court.

The defendant, Karen A. Connery, appeals from two judgments of conviction rendered after a jury-waived trial held in Providence County Superior Court. 1 As to the first case, Ms. Connery was found guilty of one count of simple assault. As to the second case, although Ms. Connery had initially been charged with breaking and entering a dwelling, the trial justice (after a colloquy with counsel) found her guilty of willful trespass as being a lesser-included offense. On appeal to this Court, with respect to the conviction of simple assault, the defendant…