Legal Opinion
Raso v. Wall
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided August 23, 2005No. 2003-73-C.APublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
The applicant, Edward A. Raso, appeals from the Superior Court’s denial of his application for postconviction relief, in which he sought to challenge the efficacy of the guilty plea that he had made on September 19, 1978. The applicant’s basic contention is that the trial justice who presided over his criminal trial in 1973 erred when, in the face of an oral motion to withdraw the guilty plea (which oral motion was made on the day of sentencing), she proceeded to sentence him.
This case came before the Supreme Court for oral argument on November 8, 2004, pursuant to an order directing…
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