GOVERNMENT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS v. PETERSEN

No. CRIM. APP.1998/105.

131 F.Supp.2d 707 (2001)

GOVERNMENT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, Plaintiff/Appellee, v. Jack PETERSEN, Defendant/Appellant.

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

January 8, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jean-Robert Alfred, St. Croix, VI, for Appellant.

Maureen Phelan Cormier, Virgin Islands Dept. of Justice, St. Thomas, VI, for Appellee.

Before: FINCH, Chief Judge, District Court of the Virgin Islands; MOORE, Judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands; and VERNE A. HODGE, Presiding Judge of the Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands, Sitting by Designation.


OPINION ON THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

In a jury trial that commenced on May 11, 1998, Jack Petersen was convicted in Territorial Court of negligent homicide. He was sentenced to prison for two years, with all but six months suspended, and ordered to pay a fine of $500.00 by the end of his probationary period.2 This timely appeal arose out of that September 14, 1998, Judgment and Sentence.

I. FACTS

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