On April 13, Judge Thomas O. Rice of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington issued an order reiterating that his injunction protecting access to mifepristone in Rhode Island and 17 other states remains in full force and effect notwithstanding recent orders by courts in Texas. As a result, access to mifepristone in Rhode Island is protected and providers and pharmacies can continue to prescribe and dispense mifepristone in the same manner as they have been.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that a Johnston man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for physically abusing his four-month-old son in 2017. On April 13, 2023, Superior Court Justice Daniel A. Procaccini sentenced Jean Diaz De La Rosa (age 27) in Providence County Superior Court to 20 years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI), with 15 years to serve. Additionally, the defendant must undergo mental health and anger treatment, and abide by a no-contact order with the victim.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today announced that a Providence man has been sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve consecutive life sentences at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) for the 2021 murder of 31-year-old Nickolas DiPanni of Smithfield.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today joined a multistate coalition to challenge the decision issued by a district court judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas that could restrict medication abortion access nationwide. The amicus brief, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, urges the court to stay the district court’s ruling pending appeal. If allowed to take effect, the Texas ruling would effectively undo the over two-decade old approval of the medication abortion drug, mifepristone by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that a Woonsocket man has been found guilty in Providence County Superior Court for the murder of 21-year-old Isaias Bulus in 2021.
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“I met Judge Michael Higgins when I was a brand-new state district court prosecutor in 1996, in Providence County district court. I learned as much from him there and later when we both assigned to Washington County as I have from any other judge.
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Today Attorney General Peter F. Neronha released the Office’s statutorily required Annual Gun Crimes Report for 2022. The report provides statistics and analysis regarding firearms offenses and describes the Office’s work to fight gun violence and violent crime.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that a Woonsocket man has been sentenced in Providence County Superior Court serve 18 years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) after pleading to sexually assaulting a female victim under the age of 14 between 2002 and 2005.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that a New York man has been sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to multiple life sentences at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) after being found guilty of the 2020 murder of 54-year-old Cheryl Smith in Pawtucket with a ghost gun on New Years Day.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that a Providence man has been sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve 30 years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) after pleading guilty to shooting at a Providence police officer with an AR-15-style ghost gun following a domestic assault against a female victim in 2021.
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