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Major internal alterations by Banning & Thornton were completed in 1906, and the building re-opened as the Sixth District Courthouse. [6] By 1901 the new Rhode Island State House was occupied on Smith Hill and the legislature vacated the Old State House, although it remained in use as a Court House until 1975.
The Providence County Courthouse (also known as the Frank Licht Judicial Complex) is a Georgian Revival building in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The building contains the state's court of last resort , the Rhode Island Supreme Court , and the local trial court, the Providence County Superior Court.
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 with the Rhode Island Supreme Court (the state supreme court) in the issuance of writs of habeas corpus and mandamus.
Providence's first federal building and custom house, built in the Italianate style, was constructed 1855-1857. As the city grew, the need for more space became apparent. In 1908, a new courthouse, post office, and custom house building in the Beaux Arts style was erected at the northeast end of Exchange Place Mall (now Kennedy Plaza ).
Amasa M. Eaton, The Development of the Judicial System in Rhode Island, Yale Law Journal 14 (Jan. 1905), 148–170. John T. Farrell, The Early History of Rhode Island’s Court System, Rhode Island History 9 (July 1950), 65–71; 9 (Oct. 1950), 103–117; 10 (Jan. 1951), 14–25; Link to article describing various RI Court primary sources
He's scheduled to appear in District Court, Providence, on Feb. 1. This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Johnston driver charged with DUI after striking RI troopers' cruisers ...
The courthouse for the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island is located in the Federal Building in Providence. The United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island (in case citations, D.R.I.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Rhode Island. The District Court was created in 1790 ...
PROVIDENCE, R. I. – A Rhode Island man has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he set fire to a North Providence church earlier this year, targeting it because of its mostly Black membership ...