Opinion ID: 1941530
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 12

Heading: Concealment and Hiding

Text: The defendant also challenges the trial justice's use of the term concealment and the phrases concealed himself and hides after the crime has been committed in the flight instruction that was given to the jury before its deliberations. He asserts that Rhode Island law refers to flight rather than concealment as being evidence of a consciousness of guilt; he contends that, because the flight instruction made reference to concealment, said instruction was fatally flawed and his conviction should be reversed. It is well settled that this Court will not examine a single sentence apart from the rest of the instructions, but rather the challenged portions must be examined in the context in which they were rendered. Kittell, 847 A.2d at 849 (internal quotation marks omitted); see also Cotty, 899 A.2d at 497.