{"id":204,"date":"2013-07-08T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/?p=204"},"modified":"2023-07-31T16:28:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T20:28:48","slug":"narrow-exception-to-the-raise-or-waive-rule-preserves-some-issues-for-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/raise-or-waive-rule\/narrow-exception-to-the-raise-or-waive-rule-preserves-some-issues-for-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"(4) Narrow Exception to the Raise or Waive Rule Preserves Some Issues for Appeal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Rhode Island Supreme Court staunchly adheres to the raise or waive rule, it has also recognized a narrow exception to the rule.\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.<\/a> (citing <i>State v. Dennis<\/i>, 29 A.3d 445, 449, 50 (R.I. 2011)).\u00a0 The exception only will apply if the alleged error is \u201cmore than harmless\u201d and implicates \u201can issue of constitutional dimension derived from a novel rule of law that could not reasonably have been known to counsel at the time of trial.\u201d\u00a0 <i>Id<\/i>. at 12-13 (citing <i>State v. Breen<\/i>, 767 A.2d 50, 57 (R.I. 2001) and <i>State v. Burke<\/i>, 522 A.2d 725, 731 (R.I. 1987)).\u00a0 In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ri.gov\/Courts\/SupremeCourt\/Opinions\/08-51.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State v. Moten, 2008-51-C.A.<\/a>, the Supreme Court emphasized that the narrow exception applies only to \u201cnovel constitutional rules.\u201d\u00a0 <i>Id<\/i>. at 17.\u00a0 Thus, it is not available when the Supreme Court merely \u201capplies a familiar constitutional rule to a novel fact pattern.\u201d\u00a0 <i>Id<\/i>.\u00a0 Indeed, if the Court were to hold otherwise, \u201cthen virtually every constitutional decision of the Supreme Court would provide defendants an opportunity to take advantage of the exception.\u201d\u00a0 <i>Id<\/i>.\u00a0 Such a standard would eviscerate the narrow nature of the exception.\u00a0 <i>Id<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Rhode Island Supreme Court staunchly adheres to the raise or waive rule, it has also recognized a narrow exception to the rule.\u00a0 State v. Moten, 2008-51-C.A. (citing State v. Dennis, 29 A.3d 445, 449, 50 (R.I. 2011)).\u00a0 The exception only&#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":[18,53,50,52,35,14],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-raise-or-waive-rule","tag-appellate-practice","tag-exceptions","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\/204","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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}