{"id":26,"date":"2013-04-23T00:03:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T00:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/?p=26"},"modified":"2023-07-31T17:17:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T21:17:34","slug":"a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/demonstratives\/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words\/","title":{"rendered":"(3) A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In two decisions this term, the Rhode Island Supreme Court appended to its decisions illustrations to help explain the basis for its decisions.\u00a0 In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ri.gov\/Courts\/SupremeCourt\/Opinions\/11-211.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DeMaio v. Ciccone, No. 2011-211-Appeal (R.I. Feb. 1, 2013)<\/a>, the Court appended to its decision a photograph of the damage to the motor vehicle that was at issue in that case and in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ri.gov\/Courts\/SupremeCourt\/Opinions\/11-180.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhode Island Mobile Sportfishermen, Inc. v. Nope\u2019s Island Conservation Association, Inc., No. 2011-180-Appeal (R.I. Jan. 31, 2013)<\/a>, the Court appended to its decision a map of the peninsula that was at issue in that case.\u00a0 It is a rare occasion for an appellate court to conclude that a photograph or any other pictorial illustration is necessary to properly explain the basis for its decision.\u00a0 The Supreme Court\u2019s recent decisions may signal to practitioners that use of photographs sometimes may be appropriate to illustrate points on appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two decisions this term, the Rhode Island Supreme Court appended to its decisions illustrations to help explain the basis for its decisions.\u00a0 In DeMaio v. Ciccone, No. 2011-211-Appeal (R.I. Feb. 1, 2013), the Court appended to its decision a photograph of&#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":[15],"tags":[16,17],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demonstratives","tag-demonstratives","tag-rhode-island-supreme-court-appellate-practice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}