State v. Ford
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted of violating his probation. The superior court executed thirty months of Defendant's previously imposed suspended sentence. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the superior court, holding (1) Defendant waived his argument for appeal that the hearing justice properly refused to admit a letter written and sent to him by the State's complaining witness; (2) the hearing justice did not abuse its discretion in limiting testimony concerning past arguments between Defendant and the complaining witness about the complaining witness's drug use and whether the complaining witness had bought him drugs when he was in a drug-treatment program; and (3) the hearing justice did not act arbitrarily and capriciously in finding a violation.
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