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STATE v. TOWNS

No. 79-203-C.A.

432 A.2d 688 (1981)

STATE v. Theodore TOWNS.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

July 22, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis J. Roberts, II, Atty. Gen., Kathryn A. Salmanson, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiff.

William F. Reilly, Public Defender, Barbara Hurst, Asst. Public Defender, for defendant.

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This is a criminal appeal in which the defendant, Theodore Towns, was indicted for murder, tried and found guilty by a Superior Court jury, and then sentenced to life imprisonment. The defendant challenges his conviction on several grounds including the fact that the jury was allowed to consider conflicting testimony about the results of a benzidine test1

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