STATE v. BROUILLARD

No. 96-344-C.A.

745 A.2d 759 (2000)

STATE v. Joseph BROUILLARD.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

February 4, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virginia M. McGinn, Aaron L. Weisman, Providence, for plaintiff.

James Moretti, Cranston, for defendant.

Present WEISBERGER, C.J., and LEDERBERG, BOURCIER, FLANDERS, and GOLDBERG, JJ.


OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

This appeal from a criminal conviction challenges the voluntariness of a defendant's courthouse confession to a series of robberies that occurred in the southeastern part of Rhode Island during 1992. It also questions the propriety of the defendant's absence from a pretrial chambers conference during which the trial justice granted the defendant's motion to sever his case at trial from that of a codefendant.

The defendant...

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