Legal Opinion
State v. Arpin
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided February 7, 1980No. 77-208-C.APublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBevilacqua, C.J.
The defendant, Ronald D. Arpin (Arpin), was tried before a jury in the Superior Court and convicted of second-degree murder. Before the Superior Court the defendant relied on the defense of lack of criminal responsibility by reason of insanity. On appeal the defendant assigns as error a number of the trial justice’s rulings. He also urges us to grant him a new trial under the American Law Institute’s (ALI) test for legal insanity, the test this court recently adopted in State v. Johnson, 121 R.I. 254, 399 A.2d 469 (1979).
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