{"id":196,"date":"2013-07-08T12:05:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T12:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/?p=196"},"modified":"2023-07-31T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T20:01:54","slug":"supreme-court-staunchly-adheres-to-raise-or-waive-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/raise-or-waive-rule\/supreme-court-staunchly-adheres-to-raise-or-waive-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"(1) Supreme Court Staunchly Adheres to Raise or Waive Rule."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The raise or waive rule, arguably one of the most important rules of appellate practice, is strictly adhered to by the Rhode Island Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Pursuant to the raise or waive rule, which is applicable in both civil and criminal cases, \u201can issue that has not been raised or articulated previously at trial is not properly preserved for appellate review.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ri.gov\/Courts\/SupremeCourt\/Opinions\/08-51.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State v. Moten, 2008-51-C.A. at 9<\/a> (citing <i>State v. Gomez<\/i>, 848 A.2d 221, 237 (R.I. 2004)); <i>State v. Figuereo<\/i>, 31 A.3d 1283, 1289 (R.I. 2011)).\u00a0 The purpose behind the rule is to prevent appellate review of \u201c\u2018issues that were not presented to the trial court in such a posture as to alert the trial justice to the question being raised.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 <i>Id<\/i>. (quoting <i>Figuereo<\/i>, 31 A.3d 1283, 1289 (R.I. 2011).<\/p>\n<p>In a decision this term, the Rhode Island Supreme Court reminded practitioners of its adherence to the raise or waive rule.\u00a0 <i>Id<\/i>.\u00a0 In so doing, the Court noted that it \u201c\u2018staunchly adhere[s]\u2019 to this procedural principle.\u00a0 <i>Id<\/i>.\u00a0 (quoting <i>Figuereo<\/i>, 31 A.3d at 1289).\u00a0 The rule is not \u201c\u2018some sort of artificial or arbitrary Kafkaesque hurdle.\u201d\u00a0 <i>Id<\/i>. (quoting <i>DeMarco v. Travelers Insurance Co<\/i>., 26 A.3d 585, 628 n.55 (R.I. 2011)).\u00a0 Rather, \u201cthe rule serves as an \u2018important guarantor of fairness and efficiency in the judicial process.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 <i>Id<\/i>. (quoting <i>DeMarco<\/i>, 26 A.3d at 28 n.55).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The raise or waive rule, arguably one of the most important rules of appellate practice, is strictly adhered to by the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Pursuant to the raise or waive rule, which is applicable in both civil and criminal cases, \u201can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[18,50,52,35,14],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-raise-or-waive-rule","tag-appellate-practice","tag-objections","tag-raise-or-waive-rule","tag-rhode-island-superior-court-practice","tag-rhode-island-supreme-court"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}