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Publication Date: 2020-06-17
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Karsnitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Caroline Brittingham and Nichole Gannett, Dep’t of Justice, Georgetown, DE for the state.
for defendant: N/A
Case Number: D69019
The court denied defendant's motions to withdraw his guilty plea and for post-conviction relief, because his sentence was just under the circumstances.
Publication Date: 2020-06-10
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Vaughn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bernard J. O’Donnell, Assistant Public Defender, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Kathryn J. Garrison, Deputy Attorney General, Dover, DE for appellee.
Case Number: D69008
Trial court erred in admitting evidence of prior convictions where admission was based solely on second-hand knowledge of the underlying facts of those prior cases and their supposed similarity to the facts of the present case.
Publication Date: 2020-05-27
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Connolly
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jesse S. Wenger, Assistant United States Attorney, Wilmington, DE for the government.
for defendant: Mark S. Greenberg, Blue Bell, PA for defendant.
Case Number: D68996
The court denied defendant's motion to suppress, because police had found a handgun in defendant's ve-hicle pursuant to a valid traffic stop.
Publication Date: 2020-05-13
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Clark
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christel Duff, Dep’t of Justice, Dover, DE for the state.
for defendant: Ronnier Henry, Seaford, DE, pro se defendant.
Case Number: D68981
The trial court improperly granted a motion to suppress, because an on-duty paramedic was a government actor and he had probable cause to detain defendant. Reversed and remanded.
Publication Date: 2020-04-29
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Vaughn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James F. Brose, The Brose Law Firm, Media, PA; Stephanie Volturo and Jan A. T. van Amerongen, Jr., Office of Conflicts Counsel, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Sean P. Lugg, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
Case Number: D68959
Confidential informant testimony and controlled buys corroborated by independent police surveillance were sufficient to establish a nexus in a search warrant application between defendant's residences and business location and the evidence of drugs and weapons sought by police.
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Publication Date: 2020-04-22
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Montgomery-Reeves
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicole M. Walker, Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, DE for Wiggins.
for defendant: Matthew C. Bloom , Dep’t of Justice, Wilmington, DE for the state.
Case Number: D68957
The court vacated a felony drug conviction and remanded for sentencing for a lesser-included misdemeanor, because the state failed to meet its burden of proving that the contents of a vial constituted a "mixture" under Delaware's Controlled Substances Act.
Publication Date: 2020-04-22
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Traynor
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nichole M. Walker, John K. Kirk, and Lisa M. Schwind, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Brian L. Arban, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
Case Number: D68950
Use of lab analysts' reports by testifying analyst who also participated in DNA profile matching did not violate defendant's Confrontation Clause rights where reports were non-testimonial because they did not substitute for testimony that would be used to prove an essential element of the crime.
Publication Date: 2020-04-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Connolly
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer K. Welch and Carly A. Hudson, Assistant U. S. Attorneys for the government.
for defendant: Anthony J. Petron, Law Offices of Anthony J. Petron, Philadelphia, PA; Gary S. Silver, Silver Legal Services, Philadelphia, PA for defendant.
Case Number: D68933
The court denied a motion to suppress physical evidence because law enforcement officials acted reasonably under the circum-stances. Defendant voluntarily made a pre-arrest statement to police, and he waived his rights prior to giving a recorded state-ment.
Publication Date: 2020-04-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Rocanelli
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda J. DiLiberto, Deputy Attorney General, Dep’t of Justice, Wilmington, DE for the state.
for defendant: Natalie S. Woloshin, Woloshin, Lynch & Assoc., P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D68932
Defendant was not entitled to post-conviction relief, because trial counsel did not act improperly in cross-examining a witness instead of moving to strike, requesting a curative instruction, or moving for a mistrial.
Publication Date: 2020-03-25
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Per Curiam
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for defendant:
Case Number: D68919
Inmate's complaint to overturn state court's decision denying motion to correct sentence was barred pursuant to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine.
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