Case Name: In re Robert Caldarone. In re John Lombardi
Court: Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Decision Date: 1974-01-09
Citations: 112 R.I. 937
Docket Number: M. P. Nos. 73-266, 272
Parties: In re Robert Caldarone. In re John Lombardi.
Judges: 
Reporter: Rhode Island Reports
Volume: 112
Pages: 937–937

Head Matter:
January 9, 1974.
M. P. Nos. 73-266, 272.
In re Robert Caldarone. In re John Lombardi.
Richard J. Israel, Attorney General, Donald P. Ryan, Asst. Attorney General, for plaintiff-respondent. Bevilacqua & Cicilline, for defendants-petitioners.

Opinion:
Two petitions for writs of habeas corpus, each
of which seeks a review of petitioner's conviction by a Superior Court jury on charges concerning the illegal possession of barbiturates, drugs and hypodermic ' needles and syringes are consolidated. It appearing that petitioners' rights to appeal having been lost because of some incident for which they were not responsible, the instant petitions will be articulated as petitions for writs of certiorari. Hester v. Timothy, 108 R. I. 376, 275 A.2d 637 (1971); MacKenzie & Shea v. R. I. Hospital Trust Co., 45 R. I. 407, 122 A. 774 (1923). Petitions are granted without prejudice to the state's-right to raise at oral • argument the question of the improvidence of the issuance of the writs.