STATE v. LOPEZ

No. 2009-280-C.A.

45 A.3d 1 (2012)

STATE v. Hamlet M. LOPEZ.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

June 22, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane M. McSoley , Department of Attorney General, Providence, for State.

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

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


OPINION

Chief Justice SUTTELL, for the Court.

The defendant, Hamlet M. Lopez, appeals from a Superior Court judgment of conviction for first-degree murder, for which he received a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. On appeal, the defendant argues that the trial justice erred by (1) allowing DNA evidence to be introduced against him through the testimony of a laboratory supervisor and the...

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