Non-belongers with residency status should soon be able to serve as jurors after Governor John Rankin assented to the Jury Act, 2022 on Nov. 14. The law, which the House …
December 13, 2022
October 28, 2022
House passes Jury Act
The House of Assembly passed the Virgin Islands Jury Act, 2022 with amendments after coming out of committee on Oct. 25, according to HOA Public Relations Officer Linton Leonard. However, …
October 21, 2022
House considers widening jury pool
Finding enough impartial jurors to hear court cases in the territory has proved challenging in recent years, but a solution may be on the horizon as legislators this week debated …
August 22, 2022
Jury reform is back on table after COI
Hoping to address long-standing issues with the territory’s jury pool that resulted in legal action in 2019, Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley recently introduced a bill in the House of …
December 20, 2019
No jury trials held in territory since July
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 …
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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. …
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