State v. Gianquitti

OPINION

Justice GOLDBERG, for the Court.

This case came before the Supreme Court on April 6, 2011, on appeal by the defendant, Nicholas Gianquitti (Gianquitti or defendant), from a judgment of conviction in the Providence County Superior Court. Gianquitti was convicted of second-degree murder and using a firearm while committing a crime of violence. On the murder conviction, Gianquitti was sentenced to forty years in the Adult Correctional Institutions, twenty years to serve, the remainder suspended, with probation. Gianquitti also received a mandatory life sentence to be served consecutively…