Legal Opinion

Tassone v. State

Superior Court of Rhode Island

Decided January 13, 2010No. C.A. No. PM 00-4624Published

1Opinion of the Court

DECISION

Before this Court is petitioner, Gary Tassone's application for post-conviction relief in which he challenges his conviction after trial by jury for his murder of Kendra Hutter and seeks a new trial or a reduction in his sentence from life without parole to life with the possibility of parole. Court-appointed counsel has meticulously examined petitioner's claims, as raised in his petition and amended petition (including claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, witness perjury, evidence tampering, and prosecutorial misconduct), and has deemed them to be unmeritorious. He thus seeks…

2Cases cited35 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  3. Stansbury v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  4. State v. BurkeSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1987
  5. State v. CaruoloSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1987

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