No. 20-511

Chris George v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

Lower Court: Virgin Islands
Docketed: 2020-10-19
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: administrative-court administrative-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-authority motor-vehicle personal-liberty property-rights right-to-travel standing
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2021-01-08
Question Presented (AI Summary)

What legal authority or standing does the V.I. Government have to take me a private individual into its administrative/commercial court (Magistrate Court) and convict me of 'criminal misdemeanor'?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Questions presented for review: 1. (a) What legal authority or standing does the V.I. Government have to take me a private individual into its administrative/ commercial ; court (Magistrate Court) and convict me of “criminal misdemeanor”, when at the time of the “traffic stop,” I was not an employee of the government, I was not engaged in trafficking anything neither was I contracted with the government? (b) What is the definition of a “motor-vehicle”? (c) Can a private ‘automobile be classified in statute as a “motorvehicle” when it is not being used for commercial purposes? Chris George : j ne 2. (a) Didn’t the 16 Corpus Juris Secundum, Constitutional Law . Encyclopedia, Sect. 202, p. 987.address;the matter of “personal liberty”? (b) Didn’t the J7 American Jurisprudence Constitutional Law, sect. “travel ahd a “privilége'td drive™? 0 ES right into a crime? 4. . Isn’t it a deprivation of-property when the U.S. Virgin Islands registered with the government? 5. Are there any statute(s) that classifies goods according to their usage? ; Chris George ty . N Rule 14 Content of a petition for a Writ of Certiorari 1. (b)

Docket Entries

2021-01-11
Petition DENIED.
2020-12-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
2018-10-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 18, 2020)

Attorneys

Chris George
Chris George — Petitioner
Chris George — Petitioner