Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 6/15/2015

State v. Elizabeth Mendez

Citations

116 A.3d 228
2015 R.I. LEXIS 84
2015 WL 3652844

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holding that the “trial justice ‘need not refer to all the evidence supporting [the justice’s] decision,’ but need only ‘cite evidence sufficient to allow this Court to discern whether the trial justice has applied the appropriate standards’”
jury instructions for the crime of possession of a controlled substance specified that “the State must show that the defendant possessed the controlled substance in question”
‘With respect to objections to jury instructions in particular, this Court has consistently been exacting about applying the raise or waive rule.”

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Judges: Suttell, Goldberg, Flaherty, Robinson, Indeglia

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