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Publication Date: 2022-09-20
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry: Federal Government | Health Care
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Stark
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Case Number: 19-103-LPS
The court rejected the government's restitution request as untimely filed, and imposed an amount of mandatory restitution based on the limited record evidence of the victims' lost financial assets and loss of income.
Publication Date: 2022-09-13
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Carpenter
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Denney, Jr., Maria Knoll, Nicole Mozee, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Steven P. Wood, Chelsea A. Botsch, Dean A. Elwell, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2206000799
Defendant was granted judgment of acquittal on violation of state procurement law where legislature and state officials had only criminalized the splitting of public contracts to avoid accounting oversight, but defendant had merely split invoices and did so at the vendor's request for fewer hours at the beginning of the contract.
Publication Date: 2022-08-23
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Connolly
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tyree Miller, pro se movant.
for defendant: Shawn Weede, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Wilmington, Delaware for respondent.
Case Number: D69930
Allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel were precluded by defendant's plea colloquy in which defendant admitted to voluntarily and intelligently entering a guilty plea and to satisfaction with counsel's performance, after defendant entered a plea agreement waiving direct or collateral attacks on the sentence.
Publication Date: 2022-08-09
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Karsnitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew C. Bloom, Caroline Brittingham, Nichole Gannett, Deputy Attorneys General, Delaware Department of Justice, Georgetown, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Patrick J. Collins, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D69916
Trial counsel did not render ineffective assistance where credible testimony showed that they had a nuanced discussion with defendant about the demographic makeup of juries in the county and did not, as defendant claimed, assert that he would not receive a fair trial due to his race.
Publication Date: 2022-07-19
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Butler
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Denney, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Eugene J. Maurer, Jr., Eugene J. Maurer, Jr., P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D69893
Former police officer could not rely on protections for statements to internal affairs investigators afforded by Garrity v. New Jersey, where the police officer was alleged to have made false statements and the Fifth Amendment only protected against self-incrimination through truthful statements.
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Publication Date: 2022-07-19
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Porter
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Case Number: D69892
Trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to demand self-defense instruction to charge of possession of firearm by prohibited person, where jury appeared to accept state's account that defendant began the altercation in possession of the firearm and possessory offenses did not include use of force as an element.
Publication Date: 2022-07-05
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Davis
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew B. Frawley, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Joshua Chattin, DE, pro se defendant.
Case Number: D69877
Postconviction motion dismissed as untimely where alleged newly discovered evidence was either known to defendant at the time of conviction or was not relevant to the trial proceedings.
Publication Date: 2022-05-31
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Jones
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel McBride, Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Elise Wolpert, Office of Eugene I. Maurer, Jr., P.A. Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D69831
Second warrant, which cured overbroad defects from a prior warrant, was permissible under the independent source doctrine where no evidence directly or indirectly obtained from the improper first warrant was used to apply for the second warrant.
Publication Date: 2022-05-31
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Carpenter
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Denney, Jr., Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Steven P. Wood, Chelsea A. Botsch, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D69832
Court sanctioned prosecution by excluding any evidence obtained from seized electronic devices from the state's case in chief where investigators took over six months to access and turn over device contents.
Publication Date: 2022-05-17
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Karsnitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael H. Tipton, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Georgetown, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Benjamin S. Gifford IV, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D69820
Court did not err in finding aggravating factors that supported sentence, where evidence and colloquy testimony demonstrated that defendant had approached the victim and shot the victim in the back.
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