Title 12, Title 12 Procedure

Appointment of capitol police officers pursuant to this chapter shall in no way limit the powers, authority, and responsibility of state police and police of the various cities and towns to enforce state law and municipal ordinances on property owned or leased by the state of Rho…

All capitol police shall be required to attend and successfully complete any law enforcement courses that the director of public safety shall require. These law enforcement courses will be conducted by either the state police or the municipal police training school for the benefi…

(a) Upon the convening of the general assembly in each year, four (4) members of the capitol police will be assigned to these branches of government for security purposes. Two (2) capitol police officers will be chosen by the speaker of the house of representatives and two (2) ca…

(a) Capitol police officers who are assigned to the general assembly and its members for security purposes shall have the same immunities and may exercise, in any place used by the general assembly to conduct its business, or any place used by any committee or members of the gene…

Every person aggrieved by the sentence of the district court for any offense other than a violation may, within five (5) days after the sentence, appeal from the district court to the superior court for the county in which the division of the district court is situated, by claimi…

Every person aggrieved by the imposition of a fine by the district court upon the finding of a violation may, within twenty (20) days after entry of judgment imposing the fine, petition the supreme court of the state of Rhode Island for a writ of certiorari to review any errors i…

If the party raising any certified constitutional question shall fail to appear in the supreme court and prosecute the cause in which the question is raised, the cause shall be remanded to the court from which it was certified, and the court shall then proceed in the same manner …

Whenever a person convicted of any crime shall file a motion for a new trial or notice of his or her intentions to appeal, the superior court may require the person to give additional bail.

No judgment, verdict, or decision shall be set aside, reversed, or new trial granted, in any criminal proceedings, for error as to any matter of pleading, unless in the opinion of the supreme court, after an examination of the entire cause, it shall appear that the error complain…

The superior court, in any criminal case appealed to that court in which the defendant paid his or her fine and costs in the lower court, may, upon application made within three (3) years after a finding of not guilty or the deferring or suspension of sentence, order the amount o…

If an appeal is claimed in the court or in the office of the clerk of the court appealed from, the claim and the time when made shall be noted upon the complaint, and also upon the mittimus, if any, issued upon the sentence appealed from; and if claimed at any other place, it sha…

When a district court shall sentence a person for an offense, it shall fix the amount of the recognizance which shall be required to discharge the person from imprisonment if an appeal shall be claimed, and shall note the amount upon any mittimus issued upon the sentence.

Upon a claim of appeal from the sentence of a district court, the appellant, in order to be discharged from immediate imprisonment upon the sentence, shall enter into a recognizance before one of the persons before whom an appeal may be claimed, in the sum fixed by the court, wit…

Every person claiming an appeal from a sentence of the district court who shall fail to enter into a recognizance in the court or in the office of the clerk of the court appealed from shall upon sentence immediately be committed to the penal institution as sentenced, there to rem…

The person taking a recognizance shall immediately send it to the superior court, and if the recognizance is taken before some person other than a justice or clerk of the court appealed from, notice of the taking of the recognizance shall be certified under the hand of the person…

The assignment day for appeals in criminal cases in the superior court shall be the assignment day in that court which occurs next after ten (10) days from the date of the sentence appealed from. All appeals shall be tried by the attorney general, except as otherwise provided.

Whenever any appellant who has been sentenced to pay a fine and costs only, having given recognizance, shall at any time before the assignment day of the appeal appear before the court to which the appeal was taken and plead guilty to the complaint upon which the appeal was taken…

All appeals from any court having jurisdiction of offenses against town or city ordinances shall be taken and shall proceed according to the provisions of this chapter, and in those appeals the recognizance may be taken by either of the officers or persons designated and authoriz…

A commission is created to be known as the criminal law advisory commission and to consist of seven (7) members who shall be qualified electors of the state, six (6) of whom shall be appointed by the governor and the seventh member shall be the law revision director from the join…

At the January session in each odd-numbered year the governor shall, with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint two (2) members of the commission to succeed the members whose terms will next expire and to hold office until the first day of February in the sixth year after…

The members of the commission shall meet for organization at the call of the secretary within two (2) weeks after each appointment by the governor, and shall at the meeting elect a chairperson who shall hold office during the pleasure of the commission.

For the purpose of improving and rendering more effective and efficient the administration of the criminal law in this state, the commission is authorized to make a complete study and survey of the subject including the detection, prosecution, and punishment of offenders, the pro…

It shall be the duty of all officers of the state and of any city or town directly or indirectly connected with the administration of the criminal law to cooperate with the commission in the study and survey authorized by this chapter, and those officers shall furnish the commiss…

The commission may appoint advisory committees of judges, lawyers, or lay persons to consider and report upon special subjects within the scope of the study and survey, and may hold hearings and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers and general…

The commission shall annually make a report to the general assembly of the results of its study and survey, together with any recommendations for changes in the laws and in the duties, methods, practices, and procedure of officers and other agencies that it may deem advisable or …

The members of the commission shall not receive any pay for their services under the provisions of this chapter, but the general assembly shall from time to time appropriate any sums that may be necessary for clerical assistance and other actual expenses incurred by the members o…

A uniform crime reporting system shall be established under the direction, control, and supervision of the superintendent of state police. The superintendent of state police shall have the power and duty, by any rules and regulations that he or she may deem necessary to collect a…

The police department of each city and town and the enforcement division of the department of environmental management, once each quarter, upon a date and form prescribed and furnished by the superintendent of state police, shall forward to the division of state police a crime re…

Upon receipt of the quarterly uniform crime reports from the reporting agencies, the division of state police shall prepare a statewide compilation of the statistics contained in the reports, and the resulting statistical compilation shall be available to any governmental law enf…

Any governmental agency, not falling within the description of those required to submit the quarterly uniform crime report set forth in § 12-24-2, which desires to submit a report, shall be furnished with the proper forms by the division of state police. When a report is received…

New cases shall be filed through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act of 1996, established pursuant to §§ 12-25-16 — 12-25-30.

This chapter may be cited as the “Criminal Injuries Compensation Act.”

As used in this chapter: (1) “Administrator” means the program administrator of this chapter. (2) “Child” means an unmarried person who is under eighteen (18) years of age and includes a stepchild or an adopted child. (3) “Court” means the superior court. (4) “Dependent” means a …

(a) This chapter shall be administered by the office of the general treasurer. (b) The office shall administer this chapter in accordance with the provisions of §§ 12-25-16 — 12-25-30. The treasurer shall designate a program administrator. (c) The administrator shall promulgate a…

(a) In any case in which a person is injured or killed by any act of a person or persons that is within the description of the offenses listed in § 12-25-20, the victim, his or her guardian, the child advocate as provided in § 42-73-9.1, or in the case of his or her death, a lega…

The office may award compensation in accordance with the provisions of this chapter for personal injury or death which resulted from offenses in the following categories: (1) Assault with intent to commit murder, robbery, or rape; (2) Assault with a dangerous weapon; (3) Assault …

(a) The office may award compensation under this chapter for: (1) Expenses actually and reasonably incurred as a result of the personal injury or death of the victim; (2) Pecuniary loss to the dependents of the deceased victim; (3) Any other pecuniary loss resulting from the pers…

(a) The office may award emergency compensation under this chapter for the: (1) Burial expenses of a victim who dies as a direct result of a violent crime as defined in this chapter; (2) Cost of the crime scene clean up; (3) Relocation expenses; and (4) Compensation for modificat…

(a) Actions for compensation under this chapter shall be commenced within three (3) years after the date of the injury or death, and no compensation shall be awarded for an injury or death resulting from a crime that was not reported to the appropriate law enforcement authority w…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any award of compensation under this chapter may be made on terms that the office deems appropriate. (b) The Criminal Injuries Compensation Act shall be regarded as a fund of last resort. Accordingly, the office shall deduct from …

No third party which has provided any compensation to the injured victim shall have any claim against the funds awarded pursuant to this chapter to the victim or in the case of death to the victim’s estate.

(a) The treasurer may award attorneys’ fees pursuant to this section from the violent crimes indemnity account for successful appeals of the administrator’s awards of compensation brought pursuant to § 12-25-18(g). (b) The superior court may award attorneys’ fees pursuant to this…

(a) Whenever any person is convicted of an offense and compensation is awarded under this chapter or under the 1972 Act for a personal injury or death resulting from the act constituting the offense, the state of Rhode Island shall institute an action against that person for the …

The office shall coordinate the violent crimes indemnity funds and any federal moneys available, and shall transmit to the governor and to the legislature an annual report setting forth: (1) The amount of money in the fund at the start of the year; (2) The amount of payments orde…

(a) It is provided that the general treasurer establish a violent crimes indemnity account within the general fund for the purpose of paying awards granted pursuant to this chapter. The court shall assess as court costs in addition to those provided by law, against all defendants…

There is appropriated to the annual budget of the administrative office of the state courts fifteen percent (15%) of the fund collected annually under § 12-25-28, not to exceed one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000), to be used at the direction of the chief justice of the …