Legal Opinion
Lewis v. Government of the Virgin Islands
District Court, Virgin Islands
Decided July 30, 2009No. D.C. Criminal App. No. 2002-56Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
(July 30, 2009)
Michael Lewis (“Lewis”) appeals his March 14, 2002, conviction in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands Division of St. Thomas and St. John (the “Superior Court”)1 for unauthorized possession of a firearm. For the reasons set forth below, the Court will affirm Lewis’ conviction.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
On the morning of September 29, 1998, Lieutenant Randolph DeSuza of the Virgin Islands Police Department was on duty at the Callwood Command police station on Norre Gade in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. At approximately 2:15 a.m., a vehicle…
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