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· 6/15/1995

Government of the Virgin Islands v. Sotero Sanes

Citations

  • 57 F.3d 338
  • 32 V.I. 462
  • 42 Fed. R. Serv. 578
  • 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 14688
  • 1995 WL 356846

How courts have described this case

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

  • approving district court's decision to admit testimony of professor of linguistics on issues of voice identification
  • including factors such as the opportunity to perceive the perpetrator and the witness’s degree of attention
  • involving victim’s identification of the defendant’s voice on a voice exemplar
  • 15 day lapse between the attack and the positive voice identification not extensive enough to disqualify identification
  • concerning victim’s identification of the defendant’s voice

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Judges: Becker, Nygaard, Roth

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