Legal Opinion
Smith v. Employees of the Bureau of Corrections
Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands
Decided March 7, 2016No. S. Ct. Civil No. 2015-0034PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
(March 7, 2016)
Hodge, Chief Justice.
Meral Smith appeals from the Superior Court’s February 24, 2015 order, which denied his petition for a writ of mandamus. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Smith is presently an inmate at the Golden Grove Adult Correctional Facility in Kingshill, St. Croix. On July 5, 1973, Smith was convicted of eight counts of first-degree murder, two counts of robbery, and four counts of first-degree assault in the United States District Court of the *385Virgin Islands.2 He was sentenced to serve eight consecutive terms of life…
Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part.
2Cases cited45 opinions
- Erickson v. PardusSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
- Board of Regents of State Colleges v. RothSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Meachum v. FanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional ComplexSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Bonelli v. Government of the Virgin IslandsSupreme Court of The Virgin Islands · 2017
- Smith v. Government of the Virgin IslandsSupreme Court of The Virgin Islands · 2017
- Duberry, Leslie v. V.I. Department of CorrectionDistrict Court, Virgin Islands · 2020