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State v. McWilliams

Citations

  • 47 A.3d 251
  • 2012 WL 2849574
  • 2012 R.I. LEXIS 111

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  • upholding the admission of a - 10 - twenty-five-year-old conviction where the defendant’s prior criminal record consisted of eight convictions spanning approximately twenty-five years
  • “Because defendant and the victim were the only percipient witnesses to the crime, credibility was a key factor in the jury’s analysis as it struggled to determine precisely what occurred * * *.”

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Judges: Flaherty, Goldberg, Indeglia, Robinson, Suttell

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