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· 4/18/1973

Government of the Virgin Islands v. Raphael Parrott

Citations

  • 476 F.2d 1058
  • 10 V.I. 564
  • 1973 U.S. App. LEXIS 10433

How courts have described this case

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  • finding that the Virgin Islands practice under section 26 was consistent with the knowing and intelligent requirement
  • holding, notwithstanding 1968 amendments to section 3, that section 26 of the ROA eliminates Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 23(a
  • “The question before us, however, is not the existence of the right to trial by jury but rather the procedure by which an accused may exercise his option whether or not to invoke the right.”
  • “The question before us, however, is not the existence of the right to trial by jury but rather the procedure by which an accused may exercise his own option whether or not to invoke the right”

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Judges: Maris, Van Usen Rosenn

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