Supreme Court of Rhode Island June 2, 1983, 82-126-C.A. (State v. Martini)

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

The state has appealed from a pretrial order of a Superior Court justice barring the prosecution from using at trial the testimony of two members of the Department of State Police, specifically, the department’s executive officer, Major Lionel J. Benjamin, and the commander of the department’s detective division, Captain Edward Pare.