Case Name: State v. George A. Marshall
Court: Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Decision Date: 1977-03-18
Citations: 117 R.I. 999
Docket Number: C. A. No. 75-314
Parties: State v. George A. Marshall.
Judges: 
Reporter: Rhode Island Reports
Volume: 117
Pages: 999–999

Head Matter:
C. A. No. 75-314.
Julius C. Michaelson, Attorney General, Judith Romney Wegner, Special Asst. Attorney General, for plaintiff. Corcoran, Peckham & Hayes, Joseph T. Houlihan, for defendant.
State v. George A. Marshall.

Opinion:
Motion of State to affirm the judgment below pursuant to Rule 16(g) is denied.
Case is assigned to the calendar for April 6, 1977, 9:30 a.m., for oral argument. The defendant will be expected to show cause why his appeal should not be dismissed, since his appeal is to the trial justice's denial of .a motion to suppress and he has cited no cases for the proposition that at a suppression hearing the State must prove that the seized article was in the plain view of the officer who first saw it. Bevilacqua, C.J. not participating.