State v. Rudacevsky

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

A Superior Court jury returned a guilty verdict against the defendant, William J. Rudacevsky, after its consideration of evidence relating to a criminal information that charged him with the unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, cocaine, to a police undercover agent. The evidence adduced at trial was simple and direct but somewhat contradictory. Hereafter we shall refer to the defendant either as the defendant or as Rudacevsky.

Ralph Jones, Jr. (Jones), a member of the Providence police department’s narcotics division, told the jury that during the late…