No. 18-687

Auriel Devon Frett v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

Lower Court: Virgin Islands
Docketed: 2018-11-26
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: chambers-v-mississippi co-defendant-testimony confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cumulative-error-doctrine due-process jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2019-02-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

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?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. 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? 2. 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?

Docket Entries

2019-02-19
Petition DENIED.
2019-01-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
2018-11-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 26, 2018)

Attorneys

Auriel Devon Frett
Paul Francis DarakjianLaw Offices of Nancy E. Lucianna, P.C., Petitioner
Paul Francis DarakjianLaw Offices of Nancy E. Lucianna, P.C., Petitioner