IN RE PALMER

No. 76-237-M.P.

386 A.2d 1112 (1978)

In re Robert Marion PALMER.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

June 1, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Kusinitz, Rhode Island Legal Services, Inc., Providence, for petitioner.

Julius C. Michaelson, Atty. Gen., Nancy Marks Rahmes, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for amicus curiae.


OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

We issued a writ of certiorari in this case to review the record of a Superior Court proceeding during which the petitioner, who avows to be an orthodox Sunni Muslim, claims that his right to free exercise of religion, as guaranteed by the state and federal constitutions, was violated.

The petitioner originally had petitioned the Probate Court of the City of Providence to allow him to change his name for religious...

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