§ 10-9.1-8 - Waiver of or failure to assert claims. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 10-9.1-8

   § 10-9.1-8  Waiver of or failure to assertclaims. – All grounds for relief available to an applicant at the time he or shecommences a proceeding under this chapter must be raised in his or heroriginal, or a supplemental or amended, application. Any ground finallyadjudicated or not so raised, or knowingly, voluntarily and intelligentlywaived in the proceeding that resulted in the conviction or sentence or in anyother proceeding the applicant has taken to secure relief, may not be the basisfor a subsequent application, unless the court finds that in the interest ofjustice the applicant should be permitted to assert such a ground for relief.