Legal Opinion
Meyers v. Government of the Virgin Islands
District Court, Virgin Islands
Decided August 25, 2006No. D.C. Crim. App. No. 2004-119Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
(August 25, 2006)
The appellant, Johvern Meyers [“Meyers”] challenges a sentence of three years imprisonment and a $15,000 fine that he received from the , *463Superior Court1 following his plea of guilty to a charge of unauthorized possession of a firearm.
I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On September 26, 2003, Meyers was stopped by officers of the Virgin Islands Police [“VIPD”] on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, because a vehicle he was driving did not have a license plate. The police officers questioned Meyers about the license plate, and Meyers told them that he had borrowed the…
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