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In Re Ouimette

Citations

  • 342 A.2d 250
  • 115 R.I. 169
  • 1975 R.I. LEXIS 1139

How courts have described this case

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  • different standard applies to case where defendant, through no fault of his own, was unable to acquire evidence because of the prosecution’s nondisclosure
  • “[w]here the prosecutor has deliberately caused false evidence to influence some part of the criminal trial, he has violated the most basic precepts of due process[;] [t]he courts cannot allow the integrity of the criminal system to be undermined by the over-zealous prosecutor”

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Judges: Roberts, Paolino, Joslin, Kelleher, Doris

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