Government of the Virgin Islands v. Ernesto Ventura

How courts have described this case

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

• ‘‘[t]o apply the Berry factor [at issue in Ventura] would effectively override the will of the Virgin Islands legislature’’
• “By any interpretation of the words, no matter how narrow, appellant ‘abducted’ his victim: he seized her by the ear and pulled her to another place.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).