heard testimony that Carlock struck Reid ten to eleven times with his fists from the “collar bone up” while Reid lay on the ground. (J.A. 59.) Additionally, Decatur testified that when he and three other bystanders pulled Carlock from Reid, Carlock persisted in attack voked, pinched Carlock’s nipple and slapped his buttocks. Carlock testified that he struck Reid to defend himself against Reid’s advances. (J.A. 264-270.) Carlock also claimed that he believed that he was in imminent danger of serious bodily harm because he had heard that Reid was recently released from prison for stabbing someone. {Id. at 276, 288.) Carlock further testified that he attacked Reid with such intensity because he reasonably feared that Reid would stab him. Carlock properly raised self-defense. Id. at 1179 (<HOLDING>); see also Gov’t of the Virgin Islands v.
holding that defendant properly raised selfdefense but passing on the applicable burden of proof for establishing selfdefense in a voluntary manslaughter prosecution in the virgin islands recognizing that a defendant may commit involuntary manslaughter if he acts in selfdefense but is criminally negligent in doing so holding the defendant sufficiently raised a selfdefense justification in a murder prosecution while thoroughly evaluating selfdefense burden of proof jurisprudence but declining to address applicable burden of proof for raising selfdefense in the virgin islands holding that when selfdefense is carried out with excessive force a defendant would be guilty of manslaughter holding that the defendant was entitled to a pretrial evidentiary hearing on his claim of immunity based on selfdefense