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· 12/17/2004

Contois v. Town of West Warwick

Citations

  • 865 A.2d 1019
  • 2004 R.I. LEXIS 196
  • 2004 WL 3017174

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that, although there was no evidence supporting an instruction on intervening cause, instructing the jury on intervening cause amounted to harmless error because the instruction “was not so far removed from the facts as to constitute reversible error”
  • noting that the \charge given by a trial justice need only adequately cover the law\

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Judges: Williams, Goldberg, Flaherty, Suttell, Robinson

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