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Publication Date: 2023-07-10
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Hardiman
Attorneys: For plaintiff: William V. Bergstrom, Peter A. Patterson, David H. Thompson, Cooper & Kirk, Washington, DC; Michael P. Gottlieb, Vangrossi & Recchuiti, Norristown, PA for appellant.
for defendant: Brian M. Boynton, Jacqueline C. Romero, Mark B. Stern, Michael S. Raab, Abby C. Wright, Kevin B. Soter, United States Department of Justice Civil Division, Washington, DC for appellees.
Case Number: 21-2835
Federal felon-in-possession statute barring person convicted of false statements under state law was inconsistent with nation's historical tradition of firearms regulation.
Publication Date: 2023-07-03
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Valihura
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick J. Collins, Collins & Price, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Brian Arban, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
Case Number: 218, 2022
Errors in microscopic hair comparison forensic testimony did not compel postconviction relief where the errors did not exculpate defendant and the state presented other substantial evidence of defendant's guilt.
Publication Date: 2023-06-27
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Wallace
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel B. McBride, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Robert M. Gamburg, Gamburg & Benedetto LLC, Philadelphia, PA; Brian J. Chapman, Law Office of Brian J. Chapman, Newark, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2203012514
Search warrant was supported by probable cause where police obtained various articulable facts indicating that an apartment and storage unit were used by defendant for stashing drugs, with that suspicion confirmed by a non-Fourth Amendment canine sniff.
Publication Date: 2023-06-13
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Federal Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Phipps
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Case Number: 22-2032
District court properly convicted shipping companies for falsification of environmental records where circumstantial evidence indicated that multiple crew members participated in the cover-up, indicating that it was done at least in part to serve corporate interests.
Publication Date: 2023-04-18
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Johnston
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dominic A. Carrera, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Thomas A. Foley, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2207004139
Court granted suppression motion where search warrant was based solely on the uncorroborated implicating statements of an accomplice.
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Publication Date: 2023-03-28
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Primos
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen R. Welch, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Dover DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Suzanne Macpherson-Johnson, Office of Defense Services, Dover, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D70176
Court invoked doctrine of jury lenity to allow operating vehicle causing death conviction to stand despite jury's failure to reach verdict on inattentive driving charge where the statute did not expressly require a conviction under the motor vehicle code and the evidence was sufficient to support a conviction.
Publication Date: 2023-03-21
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: E. Calvin Harmon Jr., Brett Bendistis Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: David C. Skoranski, Delaware Department of State, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
Case Number: 1909016095(N)
Court affirmed official misconduct conviction where evidence demonstrated that former city council president used his office to direct public funds to his non-profit entity.
Publication Date: 2023-01-17
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick J. Collins, Collins & Price, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: John R. Williams, Delaware Dep’t of Justice, Dover, DE for appellee.
Case Number: 83, 2022
The court affirmed the Superior Court's judgment of conviction on the basis that the trial court properly denied defendant's request to issue a jury instruction informing the jury that the police officer's failure to properly annotate the location of evidence in a backpack constituted "missing evidence" under the Lolly/Deberry line of cases.
Publication Date: 2022-12-13
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Krause
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Case Number: 22-1084
The court affirmed the judgment of the district court denying appellant's motion for compassionate release.
Publication Date: 2022-12-13
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Rennie
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Case Number: 1712008053
Motion for postconviction relief failed where defendant could not show that newly discovered eyewitness with testimony supporting a claim of self-defense would have altered the outcome of the trial as such testimony did not establish defendant's actual innocence, particularly where the testimony could not explain why defendant continued to use force and robbed the victim.
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