State v. Mullen

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “it is inconsistent with the intent of the Legislature to prosecute acts that are no longer criminal offenses * * * [because] [i]t is fundamentally unfair to prosecute an individual for prior conduct that would now not constitute a violation of law”
• describing § 43-3-23 as applicable to \criminal prosecutions pending at the time of the repeal of any penal statute\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Pereira
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-06-15· cited 17×
• State v. John Whiting
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2015-05-27· cited 6×
• State v. Doe
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2008-02-05
• Sebastian Wells Atryzek v. State of Rhode Island
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2022-02-11

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Chambers
  Supreme Court· 1934-02-05· cited 275×
• Hydro-Manufacturing, Inc. v. Kayser-Roth Corp.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1994-04-19· cited 111×
• Ex Parte Mangrum
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-04-12· cited 54×
• State v. Souza
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-02-25· cited 43×
• VanMarter v. Royal Indemnity Co.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1989-03-22· cited 34×
• State v. Babbitt
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-03-15· cited 23×
• Isserlis v. Director of Public Works
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1973-02-16· cited 23×
• Berberian v. O'NEIL
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1973-04-04· cited 12×
• State v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1960-06-02· cited 11×
• State v. Fraser
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1954-07-30· cited 5×