Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lee, Sidney

OPINION OF THE COURT

GARTH, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal we are asked to decide whether the district court erred in dismissing, prior to trial, a four count information against appellee Sidney Lee. The four count information was filed as a result of a trip that Lee had taken to New York and Washington, D.C. and for which he sought partial expense reimbursement from the Virgin Islands government. Lee, who at the time of the trip was a Virgin Islands legislator, claimed that the purpose of his trip was for legislative fact-finding. The government, on the other hand, maintained that the primary…