A search for three-jet hadronic resonance production in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of
7 TeV has been conducted by the CMS Collaboration at the LHC, using a data sample corresponding to an
integrated luminosity of 35 pb^(-1). Events with high jet multiplicity and a large scalar sum of jet transverse
momenta are analyzed using a signature-based approach. The number of expected standard model
background events is found to be in good agreement with the observed events. Limits on the cross
section times branching ratio are set in a model of gluino pair production with an R-parity-violating decay
to three quarks, and the data rule out such particles within the mass range of 200 to 280 GeV/c^2
