PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A Pawtucket man has been acquitted of all charges two years after a deadly stabbing in Cumberland.

Following a trial, the jury found Robert Perry not guilty of first-degree murder and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime.

Perry, 36, was arrested on Sept. 26, 2023, three days after police said 38-year-old Otis Diggs was stabbed in the "lower extremities" at a home on Front Street. He later died at the hospital.

At the time, police said the stabbing happened during a fight between the two men and a third person, and there were several other people there too.

Perry's attorney, Elizabeth Payette, told 12 News her client was trying to protect others.

"Robert Perry did what any of us would hope to do – he stepped in to protect a man being beaten,

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