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Statutes > Rhode-island > Title-12 > Chapter-12-13 > 12-13-11SECTION 12-13-11
§ 12-13-11 New or additional recognizance.– Whenever in any criminal case a defendant is required to recognize with suretyor sureties, or has given a recognizance in the case, any justice of thedistrict court, when the complaint is pending in the court or the person isheld to answer to the court, or any justice of the superior court, may, onmotion of the attorney general, require the defendant to be brought before thejustice to show cause why he or she should not be required to give a newrecognizance with surety or sureties in place of the one already required orgiven, and the justice in his or her discretion, if good cause is shown, mayrequire the defendant to give in place of the recognizance already given orrequired a new recognizance in the same sum as that originally required orgiven with other and sufficient surety or sureties, or to give a newrecognizance with surety or sureties in a different sum than that originallyrequired or given, as to the justice may seem reasonable, to do and to performthe conditions of the recognizance already given or required. In case thedefendant shall fail to give the new recognizance required of him or her, thedefendant shall immediately be committed to the penal institution to which heor she would have been committed if he or she had failed to give therecognizance originally required there to remain until he or she shall give thenew recognizance as required of him or her before some justice or personauthorized to take it, or until he or she shall be discharged pursuant to law.
