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In the older case, the court said a Rhode Island state trooper lacked reasonable suspicion of criminal activity when he escalated a routine traffic stop into an unlawful search investigation.
During jury selection, the defendant's lawyers filed an interlocutory appeal in the Supreme Court of Justice. After initially denying the petition, the lower court eventually ruled that the trial judge must make a final decision regarding the presence of the State Police as the presence of armed and uniformed guards is a departure from usual ...
The Superior Court has original jurisdiction in all felony proceedings, civil matters with an amount in controversy in excess of $10,000, and all matters of equity.The Superior Court exercises concurrent jurisdiction in civil matters with an amount in controversy between $5,000 and $10,000 with the lower District Court (a court of limited jurisdiction), and also has concurrent jurisdiction ...
Judges and magistrates in Rhode Island are subject to financial disclosure laws and a Judicial Code of Conduct, unlike in the federal judiciary, where the Supreme Court is not bound by a code of ...
Courts of Rhode Island include: State courts of Rhode Island. Rhode Island Supreme Court [1] Rhode Island Superior Courts [2] Rhode Island District Courts [3] Rhode Island Family Courts [4] Rhode Island Workers' Compensation Courts [5] Rhode Island Traffic Tribunals [6] Federal courts located in Rhode Island. United States District Court for ...
The Rhode Island Supreme Court is the court of last resort in the U.S. State of Rhode Island. The Court consists of a Chief Justice and four Associate Justices, all selected by the Governor of Rhode Island from candidates vetted by the Judicial Nominating Commission. Each justice enjoys lifetime tenure and no mandatory retirement age, similar ...
A Superior Court judge has issued an initial decision siding with a beachfront homeowner who argued that Rhode Island's 2023 shoreline access law amounted to an unconstitutional taking of private ...
This is a list of associate justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1747 to the present. The justices are listed under the term of the chief justice sitting at the time of their appointments (for a complete list of the chief justices, see List of chief justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court).