Title 5 — Judicial Procedure
63 chapters · 721 sections in this title.
5 V.I.C. § 3981 Means for prevention of crimes
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(1) Crimes may be prevented by the intervention of the officers of justice —(1) by requiring security to keep the peace;(2) by requiring the police force of the Virgin Islands to attend at exposed places; and(3) by suppressing riots. (1) by requiring security to keep the peace; (…
5 V.I.C. § 3982 Persons acting by command of officers of justice
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When the officers of justice act in the prevention of crime, other persons who by their command act in their aid are justified in so doing.
5 V.I.C. § 4001 Complaint as to threatened crime
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A complaint may be laid before any judge of the Superior Court that a person has threatened to commit a crime against the person or property of another. When complaint is so made to a judge, he shall examine the complainant on oath, and reduce his statement to writing and cause t…
5 V.I.C. § 4002 Warrant of arrest
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If it appears to the judge that there is good reason to fear the commission of the crime threatened by the person complained of, he shall issue a warrant for the arrest of such person, which warrant shall be directed and executed as a warrant of arrest, and may be substantially i…
5 V.I.C. § 4003 Preliminary examination
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(a) When the person complained of is brought before the judge, if the charge is controverted he shall take the testimony in relation thereto and the evidence shall be reduced to writing and subscribed by the witness. The judge shall issue subpoenas for witnesses for the complaina…
5 V.I.C. § 4004 Discharge of defendant
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If from the examination it appears that there is no good reason to fear the commission of the crime alleged to have been threatened, the person complained of shall be discharged. The order for the discharge shall be indorsed upon the warrant and signed by the judge with his title…
5 V.I.C. § 4005 Holding to answer in district court
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(a) If there is good reason to fear the commission of the crime, the person complained of shall be held to answer as in case of felony, and the judge may admit to bail to keep the peace in the same manner as in case of felony. (b) When a judge has held a person to answer as provi…
5 V.I.C. § 4006 Proceedings in district court; undertaking to keep the peace and for good behavior
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(a) If the complainant does not appear at the district court when summoned, the person complained of may be discharged unless good cause to the contrary be shown. (b) If both parties appear, the district court shall hear the proofs and allegations transmitted by the judge of the …
5 V.I.C. § 4007 Breach of peace in presence of court
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A person who, in the presence of any court, assaults or threatens to assault another, or to commit an offense against his property, or who contends with another with angry words to the disturbance of the peace may be ordered by the court without warrant or other proof to give sec…
5 V.I.C. § 4008 Security to keep the peace after conviction
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The court before which any person is convicted of a crime, which by the judgment of such court is punished otherwise than by imprisonment for more than one year, may require such person to enter into an undertaking to keep the peace, as provided in section 4005(a) of this title, …
5 V.I.C. § 4021 Unlawful assembly; command to disperse
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When three or more persons, whether armed or not, are unlawfully or riotously assembled in any town, village or settlement or in any other place in the Virgin Islands, any marshal, deputy marshal, or any police officer or other peace officer of the Virgin Islands shall go among t…
5 V.I.C. § 4022 Arrests; aid of private persons; other measures
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(a) If the persons assembled do not immediately disperse, the officers must arrest them or cause them to be arrested, that they may be punished according to law, and for the purpose may command the aid of all persons present. (b) If the persons assembled and commanded to disperse…
5 V.I.C. § 4023 Killing or wounding
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If, in the effort to suppress or disperse any unlawful or riotous assembly, or to arrest or detain any of the persons engaged therein, any such rioters or other persons then present as spectators or otherwise are killed or wounded, the officers, and persons acting in their aid, a…