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· 8/25/1992

Government of the Virgin Islands v. Patrick Riley

Citations

  • 973 F.2d 224
  • 27 V.I. 429
  • 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 19735
  • 1992 WL 204276

How courts have described this case

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  • selecting a jury from a venire in which fifty-two of the sixty-eight people had heard or read about the first trial, which resulted in a mistrial
  • relying, in part, on district court’s instructions in finding no prejudice
  • affirming trial court's admission of photo identification by murder victim's 3-year-old son made after detective asked him to identify the man who \shot his Daddy\ following a clearly suggestive show-up through a one-way mirror
  • \The literal language of Rule 804(a) suggests that the definition of unavailability is illustrative rather than exhaustive\

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Judges: Sloviter, Mansmann, Weis

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