State Ex Rel. Webb v. Cianci

For the reasons stated below I respectfully disagree with the majority. It is my firm conviction not only that this court has the discretion to grant the standing of the petitioners, Floyd Edmund Webb III (Webb) and Joseph Vileno, Jr., et al. (Vile-no), to bring this appeal but that such discretion should have been exercised. The majority has fallen into grievous error by rigidly applying inapposite precedents to the unique factual circumstances of the case at bar. I shall demonstrate that a careful reading of constitutional provisions, statutes, prior Rhode Island cases, and persuasive…