Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 11/5/2013

Williams v. People

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59 V.I. 1024
2013 WL 5913305
2013 V.I. Supreme LEXIS 83

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Recognizing a challenge under such circumstances would encourage gamesmanship at trial by encouraging parties to state that there is no objection and then claim error on appeal.
ordering re-sentencing for a juvenile convicted of first-degree murder in accordance with Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455, 183 L. Ed. 2d 407 (2012), notwithstanding the fact that Virgin Islands statute provides for mandatory life imprisonment without parole
where an error was invited by appellant’s counsel, this Court “decline[s] to review [the issue] on direct appeal... for plain error or otherwise”
“the Superior Court fully adopted” the defendant’s proposal for admitting the evidence he claimed on appeal was erroneously admitted
counsel had “not only endorsed application of [the statute]” but “proposed] that the Superior Court take [an] action” which “the Superior Court fully adopted”
‘‘when one [codefendant] receives reversal on appeal by raising an issue that a second [codefendant] neglected to brief, the interests of justice require providing the second [codefendant] with the same remedy’’ unless error affects defendants differently

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Judges: Cabret, Hodge, Swan

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