Legal Opinion
Witt v. Moran
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided March 23, 1990No. 89-296-M.P., 89-303-M.PPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MURRAY, Justice.
This consolidated case is before the court on petitions for writs of certiorari filed by the defendants, Susan Witt and Affadella Jordan. At their bail hearings in the Second Division District Court on May 24, 1989, the defendants were ordered held without bail pursuant to G.L.1956 (1981 Reenactment) § 12-13-5.1, as amended by P.L.1988, ch. 652, § 1. They now appeal claiming that the bail statute is unconstitutional. We find that although § 12-13-5.1 is constitutional, it was not constitutionally applied in both defendants’ bail hearings. We therefore take this…
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