Government of the Virgin Islands v. Knight

This case is before the court on defendant’s notice of his intention to rely on an insanity defense filed on the eve of trial on September 30,1991, motion for reconsideration to allow the use of the excusable homicide defense in his opening statement, and reconsideration on the use of evidence of the victim’s prior crimes. The government moved to strike the insanity defense as untimely and has also filed a motion for the determination of the question of whether the defendant is entitled to jury instructions on the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter. A pre-trial hearing on the…