2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 12 - Criminal Procedure
CHAPTER 12-19 - Sentence and Execution
§ 12-19-18 - Termination of imprisonment on deferred sentence on failure of grand jury to indict.
SECTION 12-19-18
§ 12-19-18 Termination of imprisonment on deferred sentence on failure of grand jury to indict. – Whenever any person has been sentenced to imprisonment for violation of a deferred sentence by reason of the alleged commission of a felony and the grand jury has failed to return any indictment or an information has not been filed on the charge which was specifically alleged to have constituted the violation of the deferred sentence, the sentence to imprisonment for the alleged violation of the deferred sentence shall, on motion made to the court on behalf of the person so sentenced, be quashed, and imprisonment shall be immediately terminated, and the deferred sentence shall have same force and effect as if no sentence to imprisonment had been imposed.
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