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Michael Prete v. Rhode Island

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Rhode Island, No. 2024-299-C.A. · judgment January 30, 2025


Certiorari denied · October 6, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Did this Court’s Abney v. United States, 431 U.S. 651 (1977), decision limit the permissibility of interlocutory appeals by defendants in criminal cases to ONLY double jeopardy claims? If, as Abney makes clear, no such limitation exists, did the R.I. Supreme Court’s (“RISC”) intentional defiance of this Court’s binding case-law unconstitutionally strip Petitioner of Due Process, Equal Protection, Etc. Guarantees? Did RISC violate Petitioner’s First Amendment rights against retaliation for Petitioner’s exercise of Constitutionally Protected Free Speech when RISC unconstitutionally, etc. stripped Petitioner of his RI law license for, as RISC expressly stated in its disbarment order, exposing the R.I. Judiciary’s corruption, etc. and has, to date, refused to reinstate Petitioner? Has the R.I. Judiciary’s repeated defiances of Constitutional Guarantees, this Court’s binding caselaw, etc. (e.g. RIJ intentionally defying this Court’s Abney ruling, RIJ ruling Petitioner isn’t entitled to exculpatory evidence, RIJ disallowing Petitioner from subpoenaing defense witnesses, RIJ allowing Prosecution to prohibit both Petitioner and any potential future jury from reviewing the supposed evidence (the bills) of the alleged crime, etc., etc., etc. (some briefly discussed herein)) demonstrated that it Page i of x

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Michael Prete

For respondent
Christopher Robinson Bush
Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Linked docket
24A1129

Proceedings

  1. Dec 15 2025
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Nov 25 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/12/2025.
  3. Oct 31 2025
  4. Oct 06 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Sep 15 2025
    Supplemental brief of petitioner Michael Prete filed. (Distributed)
  6. Sep 03 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
  7. Aug 28 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent State of Rhode Island to respond filed.
  8. Aug 04 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 8, 2025)
  9. May 21 2025
    Application (24A1129) granted by Justice Jackson extending the time to file until August 4, 2025.
  10. May 08 2025
    Application (24A1129) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 5, 2025 to August 4, 2025, submitted to Justice Jackson.