LYNCH v. GOVERNMENT OF VIRGIN ISLANDS

No. CRIM.APP.2001-118.

273 F.Supp.2d 686 (2003)

Jeremiah LYNCH, Appellant, v. GOVERNMENT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, Appellee.

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

July 28, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen Mackay, Mackay & Hodge, St. Thomas, VI, for Appellant.

Maureen Phelan, Assistant Attorney General, V.I. Department of Justice, St. Thomas, VI, for Appellee.

Before: RAYMOND L. FINCH, Chief Judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands; THOMAS K. MOORE, Judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands; and DARRYL DEAN DONOHUE, Judge of the Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands, Division of St. Croix, Sitting by Designation.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

PER CURIAM.

I. INTRODUCTION

Jeremiah Lynch appeals his conviction for one count of destruction of property in violation of 14 V.I.C. § 1266 and 16 V.I.C. § 91(b)(9), which constitutes an act of domestic violence.1 He argues that his Sixth Amendment right to confront his accuser was violated when the only eye-witness to the crime did not appear at trial but the eye-witness's hearsay statements...

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