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Fuente: Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab (static.case.law); Supreme Court of Rhode Island; 921 A.2d 96. Datos: https://static.case.law/a2d/921/cases/0096-01.json. Opinión judicial de EE.UU. sin restricciones conocidas de uso: CAP levantó las restricciones el 2024-03-01 (prensa); el espejo HF free-law declara cc0-1.0; NO c… Abrir la fuente
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State v. Quinlan, 921 A.2d 96 (Supreme Court of Rhode Island, 2007) OPINION Justice GOLDBERG, for the Court. We undertake this case noting that: “[I]n March of 2001, these two criminals committed two of the most brutal murders that this Court has heard recounted in many years. From the photographs and the crime scene videotape that was presented, it was apparent that these two defendants virtually painted the walls and floors of that apartment with blood. The victims were brutalized with a hammer, with vicious combat knives, even while one of them begged for his life. “It wasn’t enough that these two defendants brutalized and tortured their victims but afterwards, in an obvious and in a savage effort to destroy any trace evidence that might be found, they mutilated and severed the hands of the victims, hid them in a dumpster and then went on a morning escapade the next day in an effort to dispose of them. “In so doing, they conscripted two Mends who knew nothing about what had happened, and they bragged to them about what they had done and even chastised them for not being there to help them. Simply put, the depth of the depravity of these two murderers knew no bounds.” These cases came before the Supreme Court on December 4, 2006, on separate appeals by the defendants, Steven Quinlan (Quinlan) and Frank Sanchez-Collins (Collins) (collectively defendants), that were consolidated for oral argument. The defendants appeal from Superior Court judgments of conviction for two…
Fuente: Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab (static.case.law); Supreme Court of Rhode Island; 921 A.2d 96. Datos: https://static.case.law/a2d/921/cases/0096-01.json. Opinión judicial de EE.UU. sin restricciones conocidas de uso: CAP levantó las restricciones el 2024-03-01 (prensa); el espejo HF free-law declara cc0-1.0; NO c… Abrir la fuente
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State v. Quinlan, 921 A.2d 96 (Supreme Court of Rhode Island, 2007) OPINION Justice GOLDBERG, for the Court. We undertake this case noting that: “[I]n March of 2001, these two criminals committed two of the most brutal murders that this Court has heard recounted in many years. From the photographs and the crime scene videotape that was presented, it was apparent that these two defendants virtually painted the walls and floors of that apartment with blood. The victims were brutalized with a hammer, with vicious combat knives, even while one of them begged for his life. “It wasn’t enough that these two defendants brutalized and tortured their victims but afterwards, in an obvious and in a savage effort to destroy any trace evidence that might be found, they mutilated and severed the hands of the victims, hid them in a dumpster and then went on a morning escapade the next day in an effort to dispose of them. “In so doing, they conscripted two Mends who knew nothing about what had happened, and they bragged to them about what they had done and even chastised them for not being there to help them. Simply put, the depth of the depravity of these two murderers knew no bounds.” These cases came before the Supreme Court on December 4, 2006, on separate appeals by the defendants, Steven Quinlan (Quinlan) and Frank Sanchez-Collins (Collins) (collectively defendants), that were consolidated for oral argument. The defendants appeal from Superior Court judgments of conviction for two…