Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 11/8/2011

State v. McRae

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31 A.3d 785
2011 R.I. LEXIS 131
2011 WL 5582760

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observing that the trial justice reasonably concluded that the defendant’s prior convictions had significant probative value in a case that may have turned on the credibility of the witnesses
upholding the admission of seven of the defendant’s 2 Although Wells v. Uvex Winter Optical, Inc., 635 A.2d 1188, 1189 (R.I. 1994
“Unless some indication exists that the jury failed to obey the cautionary instruction given by the trial justice, we must assume that the - 16 - jury followed the instruction as given.”

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Judges: Flaherty, Goldberg, Indeglia, Robinson, Suttell

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