Rhode Island
Rhode Island General Laws — Title 12, Criminal Procedure
466 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 12-1-1 — Rewards offered by governor
- § 12-1-10.1 — Photographs and descriptive information
- § 12-1-10.2 — Firearm’s examination
- § 12-1-11 — Photographs and descriptive information as to persons convicted
- § 12-1-12 — Destruction or sealing of records of persons acquitted or otherwise exonerated
- § 12-1-12.1 — Sealing of records of persons acquitted or otherwise exonerated by operation of law or by motion
- § 12-1-12.2 — Sealing of arrest records for wrongful arrest due to mistaken identity or any other reason — Notification
- § 12-1-14 — Body attachment — Nonsupport of children
- § 12-1-15 — Retaliation prohibited
- § 12-1-16 — Improvement of lineup procedures task force
- § 12-1-17 — Background checks for employees of religious organizations
- § 12-1-2 — Appropriations for expenses authorized by governor
- § 12-1-3 — Rewards offered by towns and cities
- § 12-1-4 — Division of criminal identification — Chief and assistants
- § 12-1-7 — Criminal identification records — Stolen property reports
- § 12-1-8.1 — Method of identification
- § 12-1-9.1 — Duty of police officials to furnish fingerprints
- § 12-10-1 — Court open at all times
- § 12-10-10 — Commitment or recognizance on adjournment
- § 12-10-11 — Default on recognizance
- § 12-10-12 — Filing of complaints
- § 12-10-2 — Powers of justices of the peace
- § 12-10-3 — Recording and certification of appointments and revocations — Signature of warrants
- § 12-10-4 — Plea on offense beyond trial jurisdiction of district court
- § 12-10-5 — Discharge of person charged with offense beyond trial jurisdiction of district court
- § 12-10-6 — Recognizance or commitment on charge of offense beyond trial jurisdiction of district court
- § 12-10-7 — Transmission of papers to superior court
- § 12-10-8 — Discharge of accused on acknowledgment of satisfaction by complainant
- § 12-10-9 — Adjournment of trial or examination
- § 12-11-1 — Number of members
- § 12-11-2 — Attendance on court — Providence and Bristol counties
- § 12-11-3 — Attendance on court — Newport, Kent, and Washington counties
- § 12-11-3.1 — Additional county grand juries
- § 12-11-5 — Administration of oaths to witnesses
- § 12-12-1.1 — Capital or life offenses
- § 12-12-1.10 — Dismissal of information — Effect
- § 12-12-1.11 — “Indictment” construed
- § 12-12-1.2 — Felonies — Less than capital or life, penalty
- § 12-12-1.3 — Lesser offenses, penalty
- § 12-12-1.4 — Contents of indictments, informations and complaints
- § 12-12-1.5 — Informations — Exhibits to be attached
- § 12-12-1.6 — Defendant to receive copy of information
- § 12-12-1.7 — Motion to dismiss information
- § 12-12-1.8 — Hearing to determine probable cause
- § 12-12-1.9 — Determining whether probable cause exists
- § 12-12-10 — Variances of proof and immaterial mistakes
- § 12-12-11 — Conditions not required to be negated in allegations
- § 12-12-12 — Description of written instruments
- § 12-12-13 — Allegations as to form of money
- § 12-12-14 — Allegations as to statutory larceny
- § 12-12-15 — Allegations in perjury indictments or informations
- § 12-12-16 — Allegations as to property held jointly, in common, or by partners
- § 12-12-17 — Statute of limitations
- § 12-12-18 — Period of limitations extended by theft, loss or destruction of indictment or information
- § 12-12-2 — Process in fictitious name or by description
- § 12-12-20 — Original and duplicates of charges to be filed
- § 12-12-21 — “Designated assistants” defined
- § 12-12-22 — Arraignments and pleas — Notices to aliens
- § 12-12-3 — Formal defects in process not ground for abatement or quashing
- § 12-13-1 — Right to release pending trial on giving of recognizance
- § 12-13-1.1 — Hearings when state opposes bail — Medical disability of accused
- § 12-13-1.2 — Penalty for an offense committed while on release
- § 12-13-1.3 — Pretrial release
- § 12-13-10 — Deposit of money in lieu of bail
- § 12-13-11 — New or additional recognizance
- § 12-13-16 — Process on default of recognizance
- § 12-13-16.1 — Forfeiture of bail
- § 12-13-16.2 — Forfeiture of bail — Licensed bondsperson
- § 12-13-18 — Power of surety on recognizance over principal
- § 12-13-19 — Surrender or commitment of principal
- § 12-13-2 — Warrant for apprehension of accused person
- § 12-13-20 — Status of person surrendered or committed
- § 12-13-21 — Registration of sureties
- § 12-13-22 — Recordation of recognizance — Lien
- § 12-13-23 — Bail and bail bonds — Examination for sufficiency
- § 12-13-24 — Confidentiality of pretrial services program records
- § 12-13-24.1 — Pretrial services unit
- § 12-13-25 — Nonprofit bail corporations
- § 12-13-3 — Guardian to give recognizance
- § 12-13-4 — Persons authorized to bail jail prisoners
- § 12-13-5 — Justices authorized to bail on accusation of serious crime
- § 12-13-5.1 — Presumption of danger to the community
- § 12-13-5.2 — Drug testing required
- § 12-13-6 — Bail or discharge for want of indictment or information
- § 12-13-7 — Right to prompt trial on indictment or information for serious crime
- § 12-13-8 — Qualifications of sureties
- § 12-13-8.1 — Penalty for false affidavit
- § 12-13-9 — Commitment of juveniles on failure to give recognizance
- § 12-14-1 — Payment of fines for ordinance violations to clerk of district court
- § 12-14-10 — Violations of traffic and parking regulations in the town of Jamestown
- § 12-14-11 — Violations of parking regulations in the town of Barrington
- § 12-14-12 — Violations of parking regulations in the town of Smithfield
- § 12-14-13 — Violations of parking regulations in the town of Burrillville
- § 12-14-14 — Violations of parking regulations in the town of Portsmouth
- § 12-14-2 — Violation of parking regulations in the city of Newport
- § 12-14-3 — Violations of Central Falls ordinance
- § 12-14-4 — Violations of Bristol, Johnston, Narragansett, North Kingstown, South Kingstown, Warren, Westerly, West Warwick, and North Providence ordinances
- § 12-14-5 — Violations of Cranston ordinance
- § 12-14-6 — Violations of Warwick ordinances
- § 12-14-7 — Violations of Pawtucket ordinances
- § 12-14-8 — Violations of Charlestown ordinance
- § 12-14-9 — Violations of Lincoln ordinances
- § 12-15-1 — Office created
- § 12-15-10 — Confidential nature of financial statement
- § 12-15-11 — Penalty for false representation
- § 12-15-2 — Appointment and term of public defender
- § 12-15-3 — Duty to represent indigent defendants
- § 12-15-4 — Office facilities
- § 12-15-5 — Powers to accept grants and bequests
- § 12-15-6 — Assistant defenders
- § 12-15-7 — Appropriations for expenses
- § 12-15-8 — “Indigent defendants” defined
- § 12-15-9 — Eligibility for assistance
- § 12-16-1 — Short title
- § 12-16-10 — Exemption from process of witnesses entering state
- § 12-16-11 — Exemption from process of witnesses passing through state
- § 12-16-12 — Uniformity of construction
- § 12-16-13 — Severability
- § 12-16-2 — Definitions
- § 12-16-3 — Certification by foreign judge as to witness from this state
- § 12-16-4 — Issuance of summons to appear in another state
- § 12-16-5 — Taking into custody and delivery of witness
- § 12-16-6 — Punishment for disobedience of summons
- § 12-16-7 — Certificate to summon witness from another state
- § 12-16-8 — Receiving custody of witness from another state
- § 12-16-9 — Fees tendered — Duration of attendance required — Failure to testify
- § 12-17-1 — Trial in superior court only on indictment, information, or appeal — Venue
- § 12-17-10 — Defendant’s spouse as witness
- § 12-17-10.1 — Spouse as witness in domestic or child abuse actions
- § 12-17-11 — Commitment of witness on presumption of perjury
- § 12-17-12 — Detention of evidence as to perjury
- § 12-17-13 — Jury ordered not to separate
- § 12-17-14 — Conviction of lesser-included offense or attempt
- § 12-17-15 — Compelling evidence in criminal proceedings — Immunity
- § 12-17-16 — Defendant’s right of discovery
- § 12-17-17 — Restrictions on the defense of provocation
- § 12-17-18 — Restrictions on the defense of diminished capacity
- § 12-17-19 — Restrictions on the defense of self-defense
- § 12-17-2 — “Not guilty” plea inferred
- § 12-17-3 — Waiver of jury trial — Special findings and rulings
- § 12-17-5 — Continuance of trial to conclusion after opening to jury
- § 12-17-6 — Control and disposition of property used as evidence
- § 12-17-7 — Release of property held as evidence after escape of defendant
- § 12-17-8 — Compulsory process for defense witnesses
- § 12-17-9 — Defendant as witness
- § 12-18-1 — Placement of offenders under director of corrections
- § 12-18-2 — Return of probationers or parolees from outside state
- § 12-18-3 — Plea of nolo contendere followed by probation — Effect
- § 12-19-10 — Suspension of imprisonment already commenced
- § 12-19-11 — Suspension of life sentence
- § 12-19-12 — Powers of superior court additional
- § 12-19-13 — Suspension of sentence and probation by district court
- § 12-19-14 — Violation of terms of probation — Notice to court — Revocation or continuation of suspension
- § 12-19-15 — Term of probation — Power to commit after termination of original sentence
- § 12-19-16 — Suspension of imprisonment already commenced
- § 12-19-17 — Powers of district court additional
- § 12-19-18 — Termination of imprisonment on deferred sentence on failure of grand jury to indict — Determinations of insufficient evidence lack of probable cause or exercise of prosecutorial discretion
- § 12-19-19 — Sentencing on plea of guilty or nolo contendere — Deferment of sentence
- § 12-19-2 — Selection of method and amount or term of punishment
- § 12-19-2.1 — Crimes committed in a public housing for the elderly project
- § 12-19-2.2 — Alternative confinement
- § 12-19-21 — Habitual criminals
- § 12-19-22 — Infliction of punishment on sentence
- § 12-19-23 — Place of imprisonment
- § 12-19-23.1 — Intermediate punishments — Purpose
- § 12-19-23.2 — Intermediate punishments
- § 12-19-24 — Report of sentence and court recommendations
- § 12-19-25 — Warrant for commitment to institutions
- § 12-19-26 — Sentence of minor to training school for youth
- § 12-19-27 — Commitment to training school for youth
- § 12-19-29 — Sentence to give recognizance to keep the peace
- § 12-19-3 — Deodands — Benefit of clergy — Petit treason
- § 12-19-30 — Certification and default on recognizances
- § 12-19-31 — Commitment for nonpayment of fines and costs
- § 12-19-32 — Restitution
- § 12-19-32.1 — Mandatory restitution
- § 12-19-33 — Restitution — Family court
- § 12-19-34 — Priority of restitution payments to victims of crime
- § 12-19-35 — Evidence of damages sustained
- § 12-19-36 — Payment to violent crimes indemnity fund
- § 12-19-37 — Aliens — Felony conviction records
- § 12-19-38 — Hate Crimes Sentencing Act
- § 12-19-39 — Criminal street gang enhancement
- § 12-19-4 — Corruption of blood — Forfeiture of estate
- § 12-19-40 — Severability
- § 12-19-5 — Imprisonment to commence at expiration of previous term of imprisonment
- § 12-19-6 — Presentence reports
- § 12-19-7 — Recommendations of counsel as to sentence
- § 12-19-8 — Suspension of sentence and probation by superior or district court
- § 12-19-8.1 — Conditions of probation
- § 12-19-9 — Violation of terms of probation — Notice to attorney general — Revocation or continuation of suspension
- § 12-2-1 — Commissioning of special police — Revocation of commission
- § 12-2-2 — Badges to be worn or carried by officers
- § 12-2-3 — Power to preserve order
- § 12-2-4 — Arrest and detention of disorderly persons and persons refusing to pay
- § 12-2-5 — Powers of steamboat police
- § 12-2-6 — Detention of persons arrested without warrant — Jurisdiction of offenses — Penalty
- § 12-2-7 — Payment of officers — Liability for misconduct
- § 12-2-8 — Bridge police included in chapter
- § 12-20-10 — Remission of costs — Indigency — Limited ability to pay — Inherent power — Prohibition against remitting order of restitution