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
Latest Conference: 2021-01-08
Question Presented (from Petition)

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 "motor-vehicle " when it is not being used for commercial purposes?

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 II American Jurisprudence Constitutional Law ; sect. 329, p.1135 address the matter of the difference between the "right to travel " and a "privilege'to drive "?

3. Does the V.I. Government of the U.S. have the authority to convert a right into a crime?

4. Isn't it a deprivation of property when the U.S. Virgin Islands Government prohibits me from using my personal truck because it is not registered with the government?

5. Are there any statute(s) that classifies goods according to their usage?

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'?

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