Legal Opinion
State v. Diefenderfer
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided May 8, 2009No. 2006-189-C.APublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice ROBINSON for the Court.
The legal issues that this appeal requires us to address arise in the context of a criminal plot that is as bizarre as it is troubling. The reader of this opinion may well wish to read it with pencil in hand in order to compose a sort of “cast of characters” that will facilitate an understanding of the plot and of the roles played by those who participated in it.
On May 25, 2005, following an eight-day trial, a Providence County Superior Court jury found defendant, Roy Diefenderfer, guilty of the following felonies: two counts of first-degree robbery,…
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