Yes - especially if you think the charge is a misunderstanding. "Misunderstanding" cases are the ones where defendants talk to the police without a lawyer, assume the [...]
From arrest to resolution, a Rhode Island kidnapping case typically takes between nine months and two years. The timeline runs roughly: arrest and bail within the first [...]
Felony kidnapping cases in Rhode Island are charged by grand jury indictment in Superior Court, not by criminal information. The grand jury is a panel of citizens [...]
Yes, regularly. Rhode Island kidnapping indictments are reduced or dismissed in a meaningful percentage of cases, especially where the alleged restraint was brief, where consent evidence exists, [...]
International child abduction is its own legal world. The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction governs civil recovery of children wrongfully removed to [...]
Expect the state to fight bail hard. Rhode Island prosecutors routinely file "proof of guilt evident or presumption great" motions in kidnapping cases to hold defendants without [...]
