GOVERNMENT OF VIRGIN ISLANDS v. CHRISTOPHER

D.C. Crim. App. No. 1995-126.

990 F.Supp. 391 (1997)

GOVERNMENT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, Appellant, v. Ronald CHRISTOPHER, Appellee.

District Court, Virgin Islands, Appellate Division, D. St. Thomas and St. John.

Filed December 29, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel H. Feld, Assistant Attorney General, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I., for Appellant.

Erik P. Lindberg, D'Amour, Jones, Stryker, Duensing & Nichols, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I., for Appellee.

BEFORE MOORE, Chief Judge, District Court of the Virgin Islands; FINCH, Judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands; and CABRET, Judge of the Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands, Division of St. Croix, sitting by designation.


OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

In this criminal appeal, the Government challenges the order of the Territorial Court suppressing certain statements made by the appellee, Ronald Christopher ["Christopher" or "appellee"], as well as a weapon obtained from information disclosed in the statements.

Christopher had been charged with possession of a firearm in an information filed on January 11, 1995. When the trial court was advised on March 13, 1995...

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