USA v. Petersen
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. MELIK PETERSEN, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 3:19-cr-0060 ) ) ) ) ORDER BEFORE THE COURT is the Report and Recommendation of the magistrate judge recommending that the Court accept Melik Petersen’s (“Petersen”) plea of guilty (ECF No. 60) to Count Eight of the Indictment, charging a violation of 14 V.I.C. § 295. After conducting a de novo review of the record and pursuant to Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Court finds that Defendant Petersen entered his guilty plea knowingly and voluntarily, and that there was a factual basis for the plea. The Court, therefore, will adopt the Report and Recommendation and find Petersen guilty as to Count Eight of the Indictment. Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that the Report and Recommendation (ECF No. …
Download the original document · Plain text (TXT) · Browse the archive · How this archive works
Original source: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-vid-3_19-cr-00060/pdf/USCOURTS-vid-3_19-cr-00060-2.pdf
SHA-256 1476802279630563a3ae3f63d333fd27af18e68fcb01dd70e2730d6c89333c04
Re-using this document
two independent grounds: a work of the United States Government under 17 USC 105, AND a judicial opinion, which is an edict of government and uncopyrightable by anyone including the court that wrote it
Our description, tagging, arrangement, extracted text and machine transcripts are released under CC0 1.0. We assert nothing about the document itself.
Archive identifier LF-147680227963
Document text
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. MELIK PETERSEN, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 3:19-cr-0060 ) ) ) ) ORDER BEFORE THE COURT is the Report and Recommendation of the magistrate judge recommending that the Court accept Melik Petersen’s (“Petersen”) plea of guilty (ECF No. 60) to Count Eight of the Indictment, charging a violation of 14 V.I.C. § 295. After conducting a de novo review of the record and pursuant to Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Court finds that Defendant Petersen entered his guilty plea knowingly and voluntarily, and that there was a factual basis for the plea. The Court, therefore, will adopt the Report and Recommendation and find Petersen guilty as to Count Eight of the Indictment. Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that the Report and Recommendation (ECF No. 60) is ADOPTED; it is further ORDERED that Defendant Melik Petersen’s plea of guilty as to Count Eight of the Indictment is ACCEPTED, and that Defendant Petersen is adjudged GUILTY on that count; it is further ORDERED that, pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(c)(1)(A), the U.S. Probation Office shall conduct a presentence investigation for the preparation of a presentence report; it is further ORDERED that the U.S. Probation Office shall disclose the preliminary presentence report to the parties no later than December 11, 2020; it is further ORDERED that the parties shall submit any objections or corrections to the preliminary presentence report to the U.S. Probation Office no later than December 28, 2020; it is further Case: 3:19-cr-00060-RAM-RM Document #: 61 Filed: 10/22/20 Page 1 of 2 United States v. Petersen Case No. 3:19-cr-0060 Order ORDERED that the U.S. Probation Office shall disclose the final presentence report to the parties and the Court no later than January 14, 2021; it is further ORDERED that the parties shall file their sentencing memoranda no later than January 28, 2021; it is further ORDERED that a sentencing hearing shall be held on Thursday, February 4, 2021, at 9:00 A.M. in STT Courtroom No. 1. Date: October 22, 2020 /s/_Robert A. Molloy_________ ROBERT A. MOLLOY District Judge Case: 3:19-cr-00060-RAM-RM Document #: 61 Filed: 10/22/20 Page 2 of 2