Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 9/14/2011

Dowdye v. People

Citations

55 V.I. 736
2011 WL 4402787
2011 V.I. Supreme LEXIS 34

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Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

holding “an appellant [must] raise an issue in his opening brief or else waive the issue on appeal”
holding “an appellant [must] raise an issue in his opening brief or else waive the issue on appeal”
noting that an error is harmless if this Court can “conclude ‘with fair assurance . . . that the judgment was not substantially swayed by the error’ ” (quoting Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750, 765, 66 S. Ct. 1239, 90 L. Ed. 1557 (1946))
“[I]ssues raised in a notice of appeal but not argued in an appellant’s brief are waived.”

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Judges: Cabret, Designated, Moore, Swan

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