{"id":748,"date":"2014-12-28T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/?p=748"},"modified":"2023-04-20T13:24:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T17:24:15","slug":"2014-year-review-raise-waive-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/raise-or-waive-rule\/2014-year-review-raise-waive-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Year in Review – Raise or Waive Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"
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King v. Huntress, 94 A.3d 467 (R.I. 2014)<\/a>:\u00a0 Pursuant to Rule 51(b) of the Rhode Island Superior Court Rule of Civil Procedure, \u201c[n]o party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless the party objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which the party objects and the grounds for the party\u2019s objection.\u201d As the Rhode Island Supreme Court has from time to time explained, \u201c[t]he rationale underlying this rule is that it is necessary to \u2018allow the trial justice an opportunity to make any necessary corrections to his or her instructions before the jury begins its deliberations.\u2019\u201d (quoting DiFranco v. Klein, 657 A.2d 145, 147 (R.I. 1995)). The Supreme Court has been \u201c\u2018especially rigorous in the application of the raise-or-waive rule when considering objections to jury instructions.\u2019\u201d (quoting Botelho v. Caster\u2019s Inc., 970 A.2d 541, 548 (R.I. 2009)). Nevertheless, it \u201c\u2018will not apply Rule 51(b) in an overly stringent manner.\u2019\u201d (quoting DiFranco, 657 A.2d at 147). At a minimum, \u201cthe objection must be \u2018specific enough to alert the trial justice as to the nature of [the trial justice\u2019s alleged error.\u2019\u201d (quoting Botehlo, 970 A.2d at 548).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King v. Huntress, 94 A.3d 467 (R.I. 2014):\u00a0 Pursuant to Rule 51(b) of the Rhode Island Superior Court Rule of Civil Procedure, \u201c[n]o party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless the party objects thereto…<\/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":[18,52,14],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-raise-or-waive-rule","tag-appellate-practice","tag-raise-or-waive-rule","tag-rhode-island-supreme-court"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}