Government of the Virgin Islands v. Ralph Lanclos

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• explaining the principles of willfulness, deliberation, and premeditation in regard to a section 922(a) conviction
• declining to allow an in-court demonstration because it would not be a proper reconstruction of events and thus may mislead the jury
• “If premeditation is found it must ordinarily be inferred from the objective facts.”
• defendant appealed his conviction in the district court of murder in the first degree in violation of 14 V.I.C. § 922(a)(1); see also Government of the Virgin Islands v. Torres, 476 F.2d 486, 9 V.I. 616 (1973

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