State v. Mendez
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of possession of more than five kilograms of marijuana. Defendant was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) Defendant waived her argument that the trial justice did not err in his supplemental jury instruction given in response to a question posed by the jury; (2) the trial justice did not err in denying Defendant’s motion for a new trial based on both the weight of the evidence and the sufficiency of the evidence; and (3) Defendant’s argument that her twenty-year sentence violated R.I. Const. art. I, 8 was not properly before the Court.
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