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BVI Jury Act

December 13, 2022

Non-belongers to be added to jury list

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 …

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by Dana Kampa
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, …

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by Dana Kampa
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 …

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by Dana Kampa
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 …

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by Dana Kampa
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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by GENEVIEVE GLATSKY
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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by Amanda Ulrich

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