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Auriel Devon Frett v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

Paid petition · Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands, No. 2015-0082 · judgment February 22, 2017

Certiorari denied · February 19, 2019

Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

Whether the instruction to not consider the specific length of sentence a testifying co-defendant faced absent cooperation violates a defendant’s sixth amendment right to cross-examination and to due process?
Was the rejection of the cumulative error doctrine in the Virgin Islands contrary to Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284 (1973) and its progeny, and the failure to find error in incomplete jury charges grounds warranting summary reversal?

For petitioner
Paul Francis Darakjian
Law Offices of Nancy E. Lucianna, P.C.

For respondent
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Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Feb 19 2019
Petition DENIED.
Jan 09 2019
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
Dec 26 2018
Waiver of Auriel Devon Frett of right to respond not accepted for filing. (January 02, 2019)
Nov 19 2018
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 26, 2018)