State v. Oliveira

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming a trial justice’s decision to refuse a jury instruction where the requesting party did not submit the requested instruction in writing and the issue was otherwise adequately covered
• “In situations in which the trial justice does not totally prevent or completely prohibit the defendant from exploring the issues of motive, bias, or prejudice of the witness, we employ an abuse-of-discretion standard on review.”
• “Unfortunately, neither the trial justice nor this court has any authority to supplement or to amend a statute enacted by the General Assembly.” (quoting State v. Bryant, 670 A.2d 776, 779 (R.I. 1996))
• “It is well settled that when the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, [we] must interpret the statute literally and must give the words of the statute their plain and ordinary meanings.”
• “It is well settled that when the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, [we] must interpret the statute literally and must give the words of the statute their plain and ordinary meanings.”
• Model Penal Code version of attempt offense adopted as common law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).