State v. Elizabeth Mendez

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• 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.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).