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V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3806 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3806. Extradition of persons not present in demanding state at time of commission of crime

 The Governor of the Virgin Islands may also surrender, on demand of the Executive Authority of any other state, any person in the Virgin Islands charged in such other state in the manner provided in section 3803 of this title with committing an act in the Virgin Islands, or in a third state, intentionally resulting in a crime in the state whose Executive Authority is making the demand, and the provisions of this chapter not otherwise inconsistent, shall apply to such cases, even though the accused was not in that state at the time of the commission of the crime, and has not fled therefrom.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3807 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3807. Issue of Governor's warrant of arrest; its recitals

 If the Governor decides that the demand should be complied with, he shall sign a warrant of arrest, which shall be sealed with the seal of the Virgin Islands, and be directed to any peace officer or other person whom he may think fit to entrust with the execution thereof. The warrant must substantially recite the facts necessary to the validity of its issuance.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3808 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3808. Manner and place of execution

 Such warrant shall authorize the peace officer or other person to whom directed to arrest the accused at any time and any place where he may be found within the Virgin Islands and to command the aid of all peace officers or other persons in the execution of the warrant, and to deliver the accused, subject to the provisions of this chapter to the duly authorized agent of the demanding state.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3809 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3809. Authority of arresting officer

 Every such peace officer or other person empowered to make the arrest, shall have the same authority, in arresting the accused, to command assistance therein, as peace officers have by law in the execution of any criminal process directed to them, with like penalties against those who refuse their assistance.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3810 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3810. Rights of accused person; application for writ of habeas corpus

 No person arrested upon such warrant shall be delivered over to the agent whom the Executive Authority demanding him shall have appointed to receive him unless he shall first be taken forthwith before a judge of a court of record in this state, who shall inform him of the demand made for his surrender and of the crime with which he is charged, and that he has the right to demand and procure legal counsel; and if the prisoner or his counsel shall state that he or they desire to test the legality of his arrest, the judge of such court of record shall fix a reasonable time to be allowed him within which to apply for a writ of habeas corpus. When such writ is applied for, notice thereof, and of the time and place of hearing thereon, shall be given to the United States attorney, and to the said agent of the demanding state.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3811 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3811. Penalty for non-compliance with preceding section

 Any officer who shall deliver to the agent for extradition of the demanding state a person in his custody under the Governor's warrant, in willful disobedience to section 3810 of this title, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3812 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3812. Confinement in jail when necessary

 The officer or persons executing the governor's warrant of arrest, or the agent of the demanding state to whom the prisoner may have been delivered may, when necessary, confine the prisoner in any jail in the Virgin Islands; and the keeper of such jail must receive and safely keep the prisoner until the officer or person having charge of him is ready to proceed on his route, such officer or person being chargeable with the expense of keeping. The officer or agent of a demanding state to whom a prisoner may have been delivered following extradition proceedings in another state, or to whom a prisoner may have been delivered after waiving extradition in such other state, and who is passing through the Virgin Islands with such a prisoner for the purpose of immediately returning such prisoner to the demanding state may, when necessary, confine the prisoner in any jail in the Virgin Islands; and the keeper of such jail must receive and safely keep the prisoner until the officer or agent having charge of him is ready to proceed on his route, such officer or agent, however, being chargeable with the expense of keeping; provided, however, that such officer or agent shall produce and show to the keeper of such jail satisfactory written evidence of the fact that he is actually transporting such prisoner to the demanding state after a requisition by the Executive Authority of such demanding state. Such prisoner shall not be entitled to demand a new requisition while in the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3813 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3813. Arrest prior to requisition

 Whenever any person within the Virgin Islands is charged on the oath of a credible person before any judge of the Virgin Islands with the commission of a crime in any other state and, except in cases arising under section 3806 of this title, with having fled from justice, or with having been convicted of a crime in that state and having escaped from confinement, or having broken the terms of his bail, probation or parole, or whenever complaint has been made before any judge in the Virgin Islands setting forth on the affidavit of any credible person in another state that a crime has been committed in that other state and that the accused has been charged in that state with the commission of the crime, and, except in cases arising under section 3806 of this title, has fled from justice, or with having been convicted of a crime in that state and having escaped from confinement, or having broken the terms of his bail, probation or parole and is believed to be in the Virgin Islands, the judge shall issue a warrant directed to any peace officer commanding him to apprehend the person named therein, wherever he may be found in the Virgin Islands, and to bring him before the same or any other judge or court available in or convenient of access to the place where the arrest may be made, to answer the charge or complaint and affidavit, and a certified copy of the sworn charge or complaint and affidavit upon which the warrant is issued shall be attached to the warrant.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3814 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3814. Arrest without a warrant

 The arrest of a person may be lawfully made also by any peace officer or a private person, without a warrant upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of a state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, but when so arrested the accused must be taken before a judge with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in section 3813 of this title; and thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3815 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3815. Commitment to await requisition; bail

 If from the examination before the judge it appears that the person held is the person charged with having committed the crime alleged and, except in cases arising under section 3806 of this title, that he has fled from justice, the judge must, by a warrant reciting the accusation, commit him to jail for such a time not exceeding thirty days and specified in the warrant, as will enable the arrest of the accused to be made under a warrant of the Governor on a requisition of the Executive Authority of the state having jurisdiction of the offense, unless the accused give bail as provided in section 3816 of this title, or until he shall be legally discharged.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3816 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3816. Bail; in what cases; conditions of bond

 Unless the offense with which the prisoner is charged is shown to be an offense punishable by death or life imprisonment under the laws of the state in which it was committed, a judge in the Virgin Islands may admit the person arrested to bail by bond, with sufficient sureties, and in such sum as he deems proper, conditioned for his appearance before him at a time specified in such bond, and for his surrender, to be arrested upon the warrant of the Governor of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3817 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3817. Extension of time of commitment; adjournment

 If the accused is not arrested under warrant of the Governor by the expiration of the time specified in the warrant or bond, a judge may discharge him or may recommit him for a further period not to exceed sixty days, or a judge may again take bail for his appearance and surrender, as provided in section 3816 of this title, but within a period not to exceed sixty days after the date of such new bond.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3818 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3818. Forfeiture of bail

 If the prisoner is admitted to bail, and fails to appear and surrender himself according to the conditions of his bond the judge, by proper order, shall declare the bond forfeited and order his immediate arrest without warrant if he be within the Virgin Islands. Recovery may be had on such bond in the name of the government of the Virgin Islands as in the case of other bonds given by the accused in criminal proceedings within the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3819 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3819. Persons under criminal prosecution in Virgin Islands at time of requisition

 If a criminal prosecution has been instituted against such person under the laws of the Virgin Islands and is still pending the Governor, in his discretion, either may surrender him on demand of the Executive Authority of another state or hold him until he has been tried and discharged or convicted and punished in the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3820 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3820. Guilt or innocence of accused, when inquired into

 The guilt or innocence of the accused as to the crime of which he is charged may not be inquired into by the Governor or in any proceeding after the demand for extradition accompanied by a charge of crime in legal form as above provided shall have been presented to the Governor, except as it may be involved in identifying the person held as the person charged with the crime.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3821 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3821. Governor may recall warrant or issue alias

 The Governor may recall his warrant of arrest or may issue another warrant whenever he deems proper.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3822 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3822. Fugitives from Virgin Islands; duty of Governors

 Whenever the Governor of the Virgin Islands shall demand a person charged with crime or with escaping from confinement or breaking the terms of his bail, probation or parole in the Virgin Islands, from the Executive Authority of any other state, or from the chief judge or associate judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia authorized to receive such demand under the laws of the United States, he shall issue a warrant under the seal of the Virgin Islands, to some agent, commanding him to receive the person so charged if delivered to him and convey him to the proper officer of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3823 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3823. Application for issuance of requisition; by whom made; contents

 I. When the return to the Virgin Islands of a person charged with crime in the Virgin Islands is required, the United States attorney shall present to the Governor his written application for a requisition for the return of the person charged, in which application shall be stated the name of the person so charged, the crime charged against him, the approximate time, place and circumstances of its commission, the state in which he is believed to be, including the location of the accused therein at the time the application is made and certifying that, in the opinion of the said United States attorney the ends of justice require the arrest and return of the accused to the Virgin Islands for trial and that the proceeding is not instituted to enforce a private claim. II. When the return to the Virgin Islands is required of a person who has been convicted of a crime in the Virgin Islands and has escaped from confinement or broken the terms of his bail, probation or parole, the United States attorney, the Board of Parole, the Police Commissioner, or the officer in charge of the institution from which escape was made, shall present to the Governor a written application for a requisition for the return of such person, in which application shall be stated the name of the person, the crime of which he was convicted, the circumstances of his escape from confinement or of the breach of the terms of his bail, probation or parole, the state in which he is believed to be, including the location of the person therein at the time application is made. III. The application shall be verified by affidavit, shall be executed in duplicate and shall be accompanied by two certified copies of the information and affidavit filed, or of the complaint made to the judge, stating the offense with which the accused is charged, or of the judgment of conviction or of the sentence. The United States attorney, Board of Parole, Police Commissioner, or officer in charge may also attach such further affidavits and other documents in duplicate as he shall deem proper to be submitted with such application. One copy of the application, with the action of the Governor indicated by endorsement thereon, and one of the certified copies of the complaint, information, and affidavits, or of the judgment of conviction or of the sentence shall be filed in the office of the Government Secretary to remain of record in that office. The other copies of all papers shall be forwarded with the Governor's requisition. IV. The Governor need not issue a requisition under this section if it appears that the presence of the person charged with, or convicted of, a crime in the Virgin Islands can be obtained by removal proceedings under Rule 40 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3824 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3824. Costs and expenses

 The expenses shall be paid out of money appropriated for that purpose by law. Such expenses shall be the fees paid to the officers of the state on whose Governor the requisition is made, and all other necessary and reasonable expenses in returning such prisoner.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3825 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3825. Immunity from service of process in certain civil actions

 A person brought into the Virgin Islands by, or after waiver of, extradition based on a criminal charge shall not be subject to service of personal process in civil actions arising out of the same facts as the criminal proceeding to answer which he is being or has been returned, until he has been convicted in the criminal proceeding, or, if acquitted, until he has had reasonable opportunity to return to the state from which he was extradited.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3826 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3826. Written waiver of extradition proceedings

 Any person arrested in the Virgin Islands charged with having committed any crime in another state or alleged to have escaped from confinement, or broken the terms of his bail, probation or parole may waive the issuance and service of the warrant provided for in sections 3807 and 3808 of this title and all other procedure incidental to extradition proceedings, by executing or subscribing in the presence of a judge of any court of record within the Virgin Islands a writing which states that he consents to return to the demanding state; provided, however, that before such waiver shall be executed or subscribed by such person it shall be the duty of such judge to inform such person of his rights to the issuance and service of a warrant of extradition and to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as provided for in section 3810 of this title. If and when such consent has been duly executed it shall forthwith be forwarded to the office of the Governor of the Virgin Islands and filed therein. The judge shall direct the officer having such person in custody to deliver forthwith such person to the duly accredited agent or agents of the demanding state, and shall deliver or cause to be delivered to such agent or agents a copy of such consent; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be deemed to limit the rights of the accused person to return voluntarily and without formality to the demanding state, nor shall this waiver procedure be deemed to be an exclusive procedure or to limit the powers, rights or duties of the officers of the demanding state or of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3827 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3827. Non-waiver by Virgin Islands

 Nothing in this chapter constitutes a waiver by the government of the Virgin Islands of its right, power or privilege to try the demanded person for crime committed within the Virgin Islands, or of its right, power or privilege to regain custody of him by extradition proceedings or otherwise for the purpose of trial, sentence or punishment for any crime committed within the Virgin Islands, nor shall any proceedings had under this chapter which result in, or fail to result in, extradition be deemed a waiver by the government of the Virgin Islands of any of its rights, privileges or jurisdiction.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3828 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3828. No right of asylum; no immunity from other criminal prosecutions

 After a person has been brought back to the Virgin Islands by, or after waiver of extradition proceedings, he may be tried in the Virgin Islands for other crimes which he may be charged with having committed here as well as that specified in the requisition for his extradition.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3829 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 331 - Criminal Extradition|§ 3829. Interpretation

 The provisions of this chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purposes to make uniform the law of those jurisdictions which enact it.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3861 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 333 - Securing the Attendance of Witnesses From Without a State in Criminal Proceedings|§ 3861. Definitions

 “Witness” as used in this chapter shall include a person whose testimony is desired in any proceeding or investigation by a Grand Jury or in a Criminal Action, Prosecution or Proceeding. The word “summons” shall include a subpoena, order or other notice requiring the appearance of a witness.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 3863 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 3 - Criminal Procedure|Part II - Special Proceedings|Chapter 333 - Securing the Attendance of Witnesses From Without a State in Criminal Proceedings|§ 3863. Witness from another state summoned to testify in the Virgin Islands

 If a person in any state, which by its laws has made provision for commanding persons within its borders to attend and testify in criminal prosecutions in the Virgin Islands, is a material witness in a prosecution pending in a court of record in the Virgin Islands, a judge of such court may issue a certificate under the seal of the court stating these facts and specifying the number of days the witness will be required. Said certificate may include a recommendation that the witness be taken into immediate custody and delivered to an officer of the Virgin Islands to assure his attendance in the Virgin Islands. This certificate shall be presented to a judge of a court of record in the county in which the witness is found. If the witness is summoned to attend and testify in the Virgin Islands he shall be tendered the amounts specified in section 660 of this title for travel expenses and for compensation and subsistence for each day that he is required to travel and attend as a witness. A witness who has appeared in accordance with the provisions of the summons shall not be required to remain within the Virgin Islands a longer period of time than the period mentioned in the certificate, unless otherwise ordered by the court. If such witness, after coming into the Virgin Islands, fails without good cause to attend and testify as directed in the summons, he shall be punished in the manner provided for the punishment of any witness who disobeys a summons issued from a court of record in the Virgin Islands. A certificate need not be issued under this section if it appears that the attendance of the witness can be obtained under Rule 17 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.