State v. Cluley

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• holding courts should presume the validity and reasonableness of agency's construction of its own regulations
• holding courts should presume the validity and reasonableness of agency's construction of its own regulations unless the party challenging proves otherwise
• finding that the law in Rhode Island is well settled that an administrative agency will be accorded great deference in interpreting a statute whose administration and enforcement have been entrusted to the agency
• noting court must give deference to agency interpretation of own statute
• \[P]roper judicial deference to [agency's] interpretation of its regulations required the [Court] to presume the validity and reasonableness of that construction until and unless the party challenging its interpretation proved otherwise.\
• “In any event, the rules of evidence do not apply at suppression hearings.”

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