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Statutes > Rhode-island > Title-12 > Chapter-12-19 > 12-19-18SECTION 12-19-18
§ 12-19-18 Termination of imprisonment ondeferred sentence on failure of grand jury to indict. – Whenever any person has been sentenced to imprisonment for violation of adeferred sentence by reason of the alleged commission of a felony and the grandjury has failed to return any indictment or an information has not been filedon the charge which was specifically alleged to have constituted the violationof the deferred sentence, the sentence to imprisonment for the allegedviolation of the deferred sentence shall, on motion made to the court on behalfof the person so sentenced, be quashed, and imprisonment shall be immediatelyterminated, and the deferred sentence shall have same force and effect as if nosentence to imprisonment had been imposed.
