No jury trials have been held in the territory since July because of a longstanding dissonance between the law governing who is allowed to serve on a jury and how …
Continue reading “No jury trials held in territory since July”
December 20, 2019
June 4, 2018
Alcedo Tyson’s life sentence for murder is set aside
The Court of Appeal recently ruled that a small subsection of the BVI Jury Act is unconstitutional, and, in the process, overturned a murder conviction almost half a decade old. …
Continue reading “Alcedo Tyson’s life sentence for murder is set aside”