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Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 11/16/2007

State v. Briggs

Citations

  • 934 A.2d 811
  • 2007 R.I. LEXIS 109
  • 2007 WL 3407369

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  • holding that a deferred sentence, like pleas of nolo contendere , are considered implied confessions of guilt followed by judgments of conviction \regardless of the subsequent sentence\
  • explaining that because “the - 24 - Legislature * * * has established an explicit statutory scheme for maintaining, handling, expunging, and sealing Bureau of Criminal Identification * * * records[,]” the Superior Court does not have authority to expunge records outside of that scheme
  • explaining that because “the - 24 - Legislature * * * has established an explicit statutory scheme for maintaining, handling, expunging, and sealing Bureau of Criminal Identification * * * records[,]” the Superior Court does not have authority to expunge records outside of that scheme
  • “[W]hen ambiguity renders construction of a statute necessary, it is incumbent upon us to determine and effectuate the Legislature’s intent and to attribute to the enactment the meaning most consistent with its policies or obvious purposes.”
  • “[W]hen ambiguity renders construction of a statute necessary, it is incumbent upon us to determine and effectuate the Legislature’s intent and to attribute to the enactment the meaning most consistent with its policies or obvious purposes.”
  • requiring interpretation of words using plain and ordinary meanings

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Judges: Williams, Goldberg, Flaherty, Suttell, Robinson

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