Legal Opinion
Ventura v. People
Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands
Decided May 4, 2016No. S. Ct. Criminal No. 2014-0021PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
(May 4, 2016)
HODGE, Chief Justice.
Appellant Jose Ventura appeals from the Superior Court’s July 25, 2014 judgment and commitment, which sentenced him to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole as punishment for his conviction of first-degree murder. For the reasons that follow, we affirm Ventura’s conviction but remand the case to Superior Court so that it may consider Ventura’s motion for a new trial in the first instance.
I. STATEMENT OF RELEVANT FACTS AND PROCEDURAL POSTURE
Sometime around June 14, 2001, Virgin Islands Police Corporal Wendell Williams…
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