State v. Proulx

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

The defendant Ronald G. Proulx seeks reversal of his conviction of voluntary manslaughter entered in a Superior Court jury-waived trial. He claims that he was not arraigned “without unnecessary delay before a judge of the District Court” as required by Rule 5(a) of the Superior Court Rules of Criminal Procedure, that his conviction rests on a statement secured by the Warwick police in violation of his right to be free from compelled self-incrimination, and that the state failed to meet its burden of proof.

In 1977, ten-year-old Barbara Ann Gore lived with her mother and…