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48 U.S.C. § 1617 — United States attorney; appointment; duties
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The President shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint a United States attorney for the Virgin Islands to whose office the provisions of chapter 35 of title 28, shall apply. Except as otherwise provided by law it shall be the duty of the United States attorney to prosecute all offenses against the United States and to conduct all legal proceedings, civil and criminal, to which the Government of the United States is a party in the district court and in the courts established by local law. He shall also prosecute in the district court in the name of the government of the Virgin Islands all offenses against the laws of the Virgin Islands which are cognizable by that court unless, at his request or with his consent, the prosecution of any such case is conducted by the attorney general of the Virgin Islands. The United States attorney may, when requested by the Governor or the attorney general of the Virgin Islands, conduct any other legal proceedings to which the government of the Virgin Islands is a party in the district court or the courts established by local law.
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The President shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint a United States attorney for the Virgin Islands to whose office the provisions of chapter 35 of title 28, shall apply. Except as otherwise provided by law it shall be the duty of the United States attorney to prosecute all offenses against the United States and to conduct all legal proceedings, civil and criminal, to which the Government of the United States is a party in the district court and in the courts established by local law. He shall also prosecute in the district court in the name of the government of the Virgin Islands all offenses against the laws of the Virgin Islands which are cognizable by that court unless, at his request or with his consent, the prosecution of any such case is conducted by the attorney general of the Virgin Islands. The United States attorney may, when requested by the Governor or the attorney general of the Virgin Islands, conduct any other legal proceedings to which the government of the Virgin Islands is a party in the district court or the courts established by local law.
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**(a) District Court of Guam; unified court system**
(1) The judicial authority of Guam shall be vested in a court established by Congress designated as the “District Court of Guam”, and a judicial branch of Guam which branch shall constitute a unified judicial system and include an appellate court designated as the “Supreme Court of Guam”, a trial court designated as the “Superior Court of Guam”, and such other lower local courts as may have been or shall hereafter be established by the laws of Guam.
(2) The Supreme Court of Guam may, by rules of such court, create divisions of the Superior Court of Guam and other local courts of Guam.
(3) The courts of record for Guam shall be the District Court of Guam, the Supreme Court of Guam, the Superior Court of Guam (except the Traffic and Small Claims divisions of the Superior Court of Guam) and any other local courts or divisions of local courts that the Supreme Court of Guam shall designate.
**(b) Jurisdiction** The District Court of Guam shall have the jurisdiction of a district court of the United States, including, but not limited to, the diversity jurisdiction provided for in [section 1332 of title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1332&num=0&edition=prelim), and that of a bankruptcy court of the United States.
**(c) Original jurisdiction** In addition to the jurisdiction described in subsection (b), the District Court of Guam shall have original jurisdiction in all other causes in Guam, jurisdiction over which is not then vested by the legislature in another court or other courts established by it. In causes brought in the district court solely on the basis of this subsection, the district court shall be considered a court established by the laws of Guam for the purpos
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**(a) American Samoa**
(1) With the approval of the Attorney General of the United States or his designee, law enforcement officers of the Government of American Samoa are authorized to—
(A) execute and serve warrants, subpoenas, and summons issued under the authority of the United States;
(B) make arrests without warrant; and
(C) make seizures of property to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title, the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act ([21 U.S.C. 951–970](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section951–970&num=0&edition=prelim)), and any other applicable narcotics laws of the United States.
(2) The Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services of the United States, as appropriate, are authorized to and, upon request of the Government of American Samoa, shall—
(A) train law enforcement officers and other personnel of the Government of American Samoa, and
(B) provide by purchase or lease law enforcement equipment and technical assistance to the Government of American Samoa to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title and any other Federal or territorial drug or other substance abuse laws.
(3) There are authorized to be appropriated $350,000 for fiscal year 1989 and annually thereafter for grants to the Government of American Samoa to be expended in accordance with a plan approved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title, to remain available until expended.
(4) The Secretary of the Treasury in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior shall provide the Government of Am
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**(a) Jurisdiction** The District Court of the Virgin Islands shall have the jurisdiction of a District Court of the United States, including, but not limited to, the diversity jurisdiction provided for in [section 1332 of title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1332&num=0&edition=prelim) and that of a bankruptcy court of the United States. The District Court of the Virgin Islands shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all criminal and civil proceedings in the Virgin Islands with respect to the income tax laws applicable to the Virgin Islands, regardless of the degree of the offense or of the amount involved, except the ancillary laws relating to the income tax enacted by the legislature of the Virgin Islands. Any act or failure to act with respect to the income tax laws applicable to the Virgin Islands which would constitute a criminal offense described in chapter 75 of subtitle F of title 26 shall constitute an offense against the government of the Virgin Islands and may be prosecuted in the name of the government of the Virgin Islands by the appropriate officers thereof in the District Court of the Virgin Islands without the request or the consent of the United States attorney for the Virgin Islands, notwithstanding the provisions of [section 1617 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title48-section1617&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) General jurisdiction; limitations** In addition to the jurisdiction described in subsection (a) the District Court of the Virgin Islands shall have general original jurisdiction in all causes in the Virgin Islands the jurisdiction over which is not then vested by local law in the local courts of the Virgin Islands: Provided, That the jurisdiction of the D
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TITLE 48—TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
§ 1631
5, 1984, 98 Stat. 1741, 1745; Pub. L. 101–219, title II,
§ 203, Dec. 12, 1989, 103 Stat. 1874.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1989—Pub. L. 101–219 struck out provision that court
for the Division of Saint Croix be held in Christiansted
and for the Division of Saint Thomas and Saint John at
Charlotte Amalie.
1984—Pub. L. 98–454 amended section generally, in-
serting provisions setting forth places for the holding
of court of each judicial division and striking out pro-
visions relating to the applicability of procedural rules
and prosecutions by information and indictment, which
are now covered under section 1614 of this title, and re-
pealed section 336 of Pub. L. 95–598 which had amended
this section.
1978—Pub. L. 95–598 substituted ‘‘section 2075 of title
28 in cases under title 11’’ for ‘‘section 53 of title 11 in
bankruptcy cases’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1984 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 98–454 effective on ninetieth
day following Oct. 5, 1984, see section 1005 of Pub. L.
98–454, set out as a note under section 1424 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1978 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 95–598, title IV, § 402(e), Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat.
2682, which provided a prospective effective date for the
amendment of this section by section 336(b) of Pub. L.
95–598, was repealed by Pub. L. 98–454, title X, § 1001,
Oct. 5, 1984, 98 Stat. 1745.
§ 1616. Trial by jury
All criminal cases originating in the district
court shall be tried by jury upon demand by the
defendant or by the Government. If no jury is
demanded the case shall be tried by the judge of
the district court without a jury, except that
the judge may, on his own motion, order a jury
for the trial of any cr
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