State v. Breen

OPINION

LEDERBERG, Justice.

The decisive issues in this case are whether the defendant, Cornelius Breen, should have been acquitted of stalking because the evidence was insufficient to trigger Rhode Island’s stalking statute, and whether the fact and details of the defendant’s prior conviction of stalking the same person were admissible to establish an element of the offense charged.

Facts

At trial, the complainant in this case (complainant) testified that she met defendant in August 1986 at an Al-Anon 1 meet ing that she attended for support in her marriage to an alcoholic husband, whom she…