Phipps v. Government of the Virgin Islands

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a crowbar, when used to strike another person, “became a weapon that was likely to cause death or serious injury”
• affirming a Section 2251(a)(2)(B) conviction where the defendant struck the victim with a crowbar
• the Court decided to apply the common law standard of a “deadly weapon” in determining whether an object constituted a “dangerous weapon”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).