R.I. Gen. Laws § 12-22-11: Failure to prosecute constitutional objection.

If the party raising any certified constitutional question shall fail to appear in the supreme court and prosecute the cause in which the question is raised, the cause shall be remanded to the court from which it was certified, and the court shall then proceed in the same manner as if the question had not been raised; and the question shall not be raised again in the cause.