Legal Opinion
State v. Brown
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided January 10, 1985No. 82-492-C.APublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KELLEHER, Justice.
This is the state’s appeal from judgments entered after two Superior Court justices in two separate actions dismissed all sixty-six counts of an indictment returned against five defendants. Four of the counts brought pursuant to the Rhode Island Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), G.L. 1956 (1969 Reenactment) chapter 15 of title 7 (1984 Cum.Supp.), were dismissed by one justice on the basis that they violated the prohibition against ex post facto laws found in Article I, section 10, of the United States Constitution. The remaining sixty-two…
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