Ward v. People

How courts have described this case

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

• 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).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rivera-Moreno v. Government of the Virgin Islands
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-09-26· cited 51×
• Simmonds v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-08-13· cited 47×
• Bryan v. Fawkes
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-08-28· cited 45×
• Williams v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-04-05· cited 44×
• United States v. Richard Hodge, Jr.
  Third Circuit· 2017-09-06· cited 26×
• Phillip v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-06-26· cited 23×
• Connor v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-07-02· cited 21×
• George v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-07-15· cited 14×
• Castillo v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-07-02· cited 12×
• Sonson v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-09-09· cited 11×
• Todman v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-09-13· cited 11×
• Joseph v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-12-23· cited 11×
• Francis v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2015-10-23· cited 10×
• Ubiles v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2017-05-25· cited 10×
• Woodrup v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2015-10-20· cited 7×
• Hightree v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-02-07· cited 4×
• Fontaine v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2015-05-20· cited 4×
• In re the Motion to Permit & Authorize Motylinski
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-02-25· cited 3×
• People v. Velasquez
  Superior Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-01-16· cited 1×

Cites

37 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-05-12· cited 4,572×
• Missouri v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-19· cited 2,324×
• Albernaz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-09· cited 1,588×
• Muscarello v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1998-06-08· cited 848×
• Rewis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1971-04-05· cited 673×
• Gavieres v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1911-04-03· cited 625×
• United States v. Wells
  Supreme Court· 1997-02-26· cited 565×
• Puerto Rico v. Shell Co. (PR), Ltd.
  Supreme Court· 1937-12-06· cited 367×
• State v. Treadway
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1977-11-10· cited 170×
• United States v. Victoria Kaye Johnson, A/K/A Victoria Kaye Southern
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-03-03· cited 134×
• Chaney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-03-14· cited 110×
• United States v. Gerald A. Coates Gerald Coates
  Third Circuit· 1999-05-21· cited 80×
• United States v. Mohammad S. Mohammad, Also Known as Sean Saleh, and Asad Saleh
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-04-27· cited 74×
• United States v. Mary M. Porter
  Second Circuit· 1994-11-29· cited 72×
• Gilbert v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2009-10-06· cited 66×
• United States v. Robert Allen Edwards A/K/A Fidel Salim A/K/A James F. Winter, III A/K/A Charles King A/K/A Donald W. Coleman, Robert Allen Edwards
  Third Circuit· 1998-11-27· cited 64×
• Murrell v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2010-09-13· cited 64×
• In re People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2009-05-13· cited 62×
• United States v. Peter Sleight
  Third Circuit· 1987-01-12· cited 61×