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City of Providence v. Dominiqua Newkirk, No. T15-0028 (August 23, 2016)

Defendant appealed the decision of the trial court sustaining the violation of R.I.G.L. 1956 § 31-47-9 (“operating without insurance”). Defendant argued that the trial court erred in not reciting the defendant’s prior insurance offenses on the record. § 31-47-9 does not require that the trial court recite the defendant’s prior insurance offenses on the record. This statute has never been interpreted to have this requirement. The Colin Foote Act § 31-27-24 does have this requirement, but the Appeals Panel declined to extend this requirement to § 31-47-9. Accordingly, the trial court’s decision was affirmed. 

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