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Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 6/20/2013

Frett v. People

Citations

  • 58 V.I. 492
  • 2013 WL 3212604
  • 2013 V.I. Supreme LEXIS 25

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[W]e presume that jurors follow the court’s instructions and thus would not have relied on the statement as evidence of Frett’s guilt, if they had been so instructed.”
  • the People’s failure to address “the critical question” on appeal of whether a constitutional error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt prevented this Court from holding that the error was harmless
  • “had the statement been properly used solely for impeachment, the court would have provided a limiting instruction, informing the jury that [it] could not use the statement” as evidence of the defendant’s guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cabret, Hodge, Swan

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