STATE v. DIEFENDERFER

No. 2006-189-C.A.

970 A.2d 12 (2009)

STATE v. Roy DIEFENDERFER.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

May 8, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher R. Bush, Department of the Attorney General, for Plaintiff.

Janice M. Weisfeld, Office of the Public Defender, for Defendant.

Present: WILLIAMS, C.J., GOLDBERG, FLAHERTY, SUTTELL, and ROBINSON, JJ.


OPINION

Justice ROBINSON for the Court.

The legal issues that this appeal requires us to address arise in the context of a criminal plot that is as bizarre as it is troubling. The reader of this opinion may well wish to read it with pencil in hand in order to compose a sort of "cast of characters" that will facilitate an understanding of the plot and of the roles played by those who participated in it.

On May 25, 2005, following an eight-day trial...

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