Legal Opinion
Rivera v. People
Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands
Decided May 4, 2016No. S. Ct. Criminal No. 2014-0027PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
(May 4, 2016)
Hodge, Chief Justice.
Appellant Jose Rivera appeals from the Superior Court’s May 2, 2014 judgment and commitment, which sentenced him to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole as punishment for being found guilty of first-degree murder. For the reasons that follow, we affirm Rivera’s convictions but remand the case to Superior Court so that it may consider Rivera’s motion for a new trial in the first instance.
*545I. STATEMENT OF RELEVANT FACTS AND PROCEDURAL POSTURE
Sometime in mid-June 2001, presumably on June 14, 2001, Virgin Islands Police Corporal…
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