LUKE v. GOVERNMENT OF VIRGIN ISLANDS

D.C.Crim.App. No. 1993-83. T.C.Crim. Nos. 0785/1992, 154/1992.

921 F.Supp. 302 (1996)

Mikey LUKE, Appellant, v. GOVERNMENT OF the VIRGIN ISLANDS, Appellee. Joseph HARLEY, Appellant, v. GOVERNMENT OF the VIRGIN ISLANDS, Appellee.

District Court, Virgin Islands, Appellate Division, D. St. Croix.

Decided April 3, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacqueline W. Mills, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S.V.I., for Appellant Luke.

Eszart Wynter, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S.V.I., for Appellant Harley.

Daryl D. Donohue, Assistant Attorney General, Virgin Islands Department of Justice, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S.V.I., for named Appellee Government of the Virgin Islands.

Before MOORE, Chief Judge, District Court of the Virgin Islands; GILES, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Sitting by Designation; and SWAN, Judge of the Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands, Sitting by Designation.


OPINION OF THE COURT

MOORE, Chief Judge.

Before the Court are consolidated appeals challenging the legality of sentences imposed upon convictions based on pleas of guilty.1 Before reaching the merits of the issue presented by these appeals, however, we must first determine whether we have jurisdiction to hear them. The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has recently construed the scope of our appellate jurisdiction...

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