State v. Breton
Annotate this CaseEarly in the morning of October 25, 2011, as she was leaving for work, Lora, was viciously attacked by a masked assailant in the front hall of her home and was severely cut on her face with a small blade. Lora subsequently identified her attacker as Breton, with whom she had previously had a two-year-long romantic relationship. Breton was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and simple assault on Lora. A third count was for a simple assault against Lora’s daughter, which was alleged to have occurred on May 26, 2010. When the case was reached for trial, Breton was convicted of the two counts of assault against Lora, but acquitted of the third count. The Rhode Island Supreme Court affirmed, rejecting an argument that the trial justice misconstrued the evidence when he found Lora to be a more credible witness than the alibi witnesses produced by Breton, Breton’s mother and a family friend.
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