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In her affidavit, the wife asserted that her husband had lied at trial that Miller remained at home the night of Greene's death that contrary to her husband's courtroom testimony, Miller had never remained away from their home without her at night within the period during which he was allegedly planning the demise of Greene and Perkins and that she had advised two Providence police detectives of 'these facts.' The detectives filed counteraffidavits in which they denied ever having any conversation with Mrs. The petitioner and Sweet filed a motion for a new trial and in support thereof they filed as newly discovered evidence an affidavit signed by Miller's wife. The jury returned guilty verdicts against petitioner and Sweet and acquitted petitioner's brother John and Tillinghast. The thrust of their contents was that Miller had told the affiants that he knew nothing about Greene's killing but that in view of the other charges then pending against him and because of police persuasion, he would appear as a prosecution witness against petitioner and hope that his cooperation would cause the Rhode Island authorities to show a similar cooperative attitude towards him. Two depositions of prisoners who served time with Miller when he was at a federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, were read to the jurors. Each witness contradicted some aspect of Miller's testimony. Shots were fired and Greene was killed.Ī number of witnesses testified for the defense. Miller testified that on the evening of October 21, 1969, while he was walking along the street upon which Greene lived, he saw Greene leave his car and approach another car.

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Miller detailed a series of meetings with his fellow conspirators, the procurement of firearms, and the periodic reconnoitering of the different places where Perkins and Greene were likely to be in each other's company. Tillinghast embarked upon a plan whose ultimate goal was the elimination of Perkins and Greene. Once he was on the street, he contacted John Ouimette, and they along with a Ronald H. Miller was paroled on September 30, 1969. Later, the agreement was broadened to include as a second victim one Michael Greene who had allegedly beaten up petitioner's brother, John. He claimed that they worked together in the prison laundry and that as a result of this association a friendship between the two ripened to such a point that Miller, at petitioner's urging, agreed to kill a Homer Perkins for a price of $5,000. Miller told the trial justice and the jury that he had met petitioner while they were both incarcerated at the Adult Correctional Institutions. The prosecution's main witness was William H. The conspiracy trial was held before a Superior Court jury in early 1972. We have issued our writ of certiorari to consider the petitioner's contention that his conviction on a charge that he conspired with others to murder Michael Greene and Homer George Perkins is the direct result of the denial of his right to due process because the prosecution, suppressed evidence which favored the petitioner.

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