United States v. One Package of Ready-Made Clothing

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “Congress enacted the 1968 amendment to the Revised Organic Act to mandate that the Fifth Amendment ‘have the same force and effect’ in the Virgin Islands ‘as in the United States or in any State of the United States’ ”
• section 104 does not prevent sentencing on related weapons charges in addition to the underlying crime of violence
• “[It is] a clear and unambiguous intent on the part of the Legislature, whenever an individual is convicted for both [unauthorized use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence] and a crime of violence, to require punishment for both of those offenses.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).