State v. Kendall Whitaker

How courts have described this case

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• upholding denial of a motion for a new trial where the trial justice found numerous witnesses not credible, but still determined that the testimony was supported by circumstantial evidence
• affirming trial justice’s denial of motion for a new trial even though “witnesses’ testimony was rife with so many inconsistencies” because inconsistencies concerned subsidiary issues such as size and caliber of defendant’s gun
• also holding that the defendant was not “entitled to a new trial because certain bench conferences were not placed on the record”
• “The state * * * carries the burden of producing enough evidence so that * * * the defendant’s guilt has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt as to each element or component of the crimes charged.” (brackets omitted) (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).