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Publication Date: 2020-06-17
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stokes
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Hume, IV and John W. Donahue, IV, Dep’t of Justice, Georgetown, DE for the state.
for defendant: Thomas A. Pedersen and Michael R. Abram for defendant.
Case Number: D69020
The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss the murder charges against him, and it granted the state's motion to involuntarily medicate defendant to restore his competency to stand trial.
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.
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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.
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.
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