Government of the Virgin Islands v. Salvador Santiago Ortiz, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• observing that this doctrine (Ker-Frisbie) has been seriously questioned because it condones illegal police conduct
• reasoning that the crime of first-degree murder in the Virgin Islands Code “is not ‘in violation of an Act of Congress’ because the crime was created by an act of the Virgin Islands legislature”
• “We note that on March 3,1970, the perceptive judge of the district court achieved the same result for the municipal courts of the Virgin Islands ....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).