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State v. Turner

Citations

  • 746 A.2d 700
  • 2000 R.I. LEXIS 43
  • 2000 WL 202296

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  • holding that the trial justice’s refusal to permit the defendant to make an opening statement was not error when the “defendant neither stated definitively that he would be presenting evidence, nor did he specify the information that he hoped to elicit on cross-examination”
  • upholding the trial justice’s refusal to allow the defendant to give an opening statement because he did not yet know whether he would call witnesses and indicated to the court that he intended to elicit new evidence on cross-examination but refused to specify what that evidence would be

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Judges: Weisberger, Lederberg, Bourcier, Flanders, Goldberg

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