Legal Opinion
Lettsome v. Waggoner
District Court, Virgin Islands
Decided August 18, 1987No. Civ. 1986/524PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
Before us today is this novel question: does an executive pardon of one convicted for assault, which by its terms purports to expunge the judicial records of the conviction, and because of which an appeal is mooted, preclude the collateral use of the conviction in a subsequent civil matter? For the following reasons we hold that it does not, and we affirm the trial court.
I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
The defendant/appellant, Charles S. Waggoner, prosecutes this appeal from an interlocutory order of the territorial court granting the plaintiff/appellee, Ulysses A. Lettsome, partial…
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