Sosa v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that providing the defendant an opportunity to respond to the state’s motion to dismiss “was all the process that [the defendant] was due”
• “[I]t is the prerogative of the General Assembly to define criminal offenses and set forth the sentences for those crimes and that when it does so, the Legislature is not intruding upon the judicial function.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kyle Campbell v. State of Rhode Island
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2012-12-12· cited 33×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-02-11· cited 27×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2011-12-02· cited 26×
• Tassone v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2012-05-21· cited 19×
• Nelson Bido v. State of Rhode Island
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2012-12-10· cited 14×
• Torres v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2011-05-19· cited 13×
• Javier Merida v. State of Rhode Island
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2014-06-24· cited 9×
• Joseph Hall v. State of Rhode Island
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2013-03-01· cited 8×
• Eddie M. Linde v. State of Rhode Island
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2013-10-31· cited 8×
• State v. Linde
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-03-06· cited 7×
• Higham v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2012-06-28· cited 6×
• Ricardo Ramirez v. State of Rhode Island
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2014-05-09· cited 5×
• Gerald Lopes v. State of Rhode Island
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2015-03-26· cited 4×
• Sifuentes v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2012-05-07· cited 1×
• State v. Victor Tavares
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2024-04-22