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