James Callwood v. John Questel, Conrad Hoover, Elroy John and J. Garcia

OPINION OF THE COURT

This matter is before this court on remand from the Supreme Court, — U.S. —, 109 S.Ct. 2425, 104 L.Ed.2d 982 (1989). The historical facts, primarily procedural in nature, are as follows:

James Callwood is a territorial prisoner of the Virgin Islands, incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution at El Reno, Oklahoma. On January 14,1986, Callwood filed an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983 and 1985 (1982) in the District Court of the Virgin Islands alleging that the defendants, four detectives in the service of the St. Thomas Department of Public Safety, acted…