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GOVERNMENT OF VIRGIN ISLANDS v. TORRES

No. 72-1835.

476 F.2d 486 (1973)

GOVERNMENT OF the VIRGIN ISLANDS v. Emerito TORRES, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided April 4, 1973.

As Amended May 7, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Ocean, Christiansted, St. Croix, V. I., for appellant.

Julio A. Brady, Asst. U. S. Atty., Christiansted, St. Croix, V. I., for appellee.

Before VAN DUSEN, ROSENN, and HUNTER, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROSENN, Circuit Judge.

Emerito Torres appeals to this court from his judgment of conviction on March 16, 1972, for premeditated murder. He was tried to a jury in the District of the Virgin Islands and was sentenced to life imprisonment. His appeal raises a number of alleged trial errors, the most important of which is the failure of the trial judge to decide as a matter of law that the Government's key witness was an accomplice to the...

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