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U.S. Virgin Islands – The Superior Court of the Virgin Islands has granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) preventing the Board of Parole from hearing pending parole applications while its membership lacks a quorum.  At a later date the Court will hear arguments with respect to the Governor’s motion to enjoin the retroactive application of Act No. 8791(which would make geriatric parole available to those otherwise ineligible for parole under the law applicable at the time of their sentencing).

U.S. Virgin Islands – V.I. Attorney General Gordon C. Rhea announced that on May 30, 2025, Joseph Ramirez pleaded guilty to First-Degree Assault before the Honorable Judge Douglas Brady in the Virgin Islands Superior Court. Sentencing is scheduled for July 30, 2025, and Ramirez faces up to fifteen years in prison.

U.S. Virgin Islands – The Virgin Islands Department of Justice has filed an emergency motion with the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands seeking a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) to postpone a series of parole hearings scheduled to begin on June 2, 2025, and to seek the court’s interpretation of whether the statute unconstitutionally alters judicially imposed sentences and parole eligibility.