State v. Barnes

OPINION

BOURCIER, Justice.

In this appeal, the state seeks review of a Superior Court trial justice’s decision granting the defendant’s pretrial motion to suppress evidence.

I

Case Facts and Travel

On February 21, 1997, a Providence County grand jury indicted Christopher Barnes (Barnes or defendant), charging him with first-degree sexual assault upon Jane Jones (Jones), 1 a first-year student at Brown University. The state alleges that in the early morning of October 6, 1996, Ms. Jones was present at a fraternity party at Brown. At some point during the party, while Ms. Jones was dancing with…