Court Opinion

ID: 9766971
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:05:03.363857+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:27.541483
License: Public Domain

MURRAY, Justice,
concurring.
I join the opinion of the majority and write to respond, on behalf of the court, to the defendant’s motion that I disqualify myself from participating in this appeal. The defendant asserts that both by reason of my marriage to the former U.S. Attorney and because of the fact that I wrote the opinion for the court in State v. Byrnes, R.I., 433 A.2d 658 (1981), I have bias and prejudice in this matter.
No bias or prejudice inheres from the record, nor has the defendant proven such bias or prejudice. There exists no impediment to my ability to act with complete impartiality in resolving the issues between the defendant and the State of Rhode Island in the instant matter. Therefore, I decline to recuse myself.