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  • State v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2024-04-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda D. Buckworth, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Herbert W. Mondros, Rigrodsky Law, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: 1510018545A

    Court ruled evidentiary hearings were necessary to resolve postconviction relief claims alleging trial counsel's ineffectiveness for failing to call witnesses who would contradict the complaining witness and whether the state committed a Brady violation by concealing knowledge of an alleged non-prosecution promise to the complaining witness.

  • United States v. Biden

    Publication Date: 2024-04-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David C. Weiss, Special Counsel, Leo J. Wise, Principal Senior Assistant Special Counsel, Derek E. Hines, Senior Assistant Special Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Bartholomew J. Dalton, Dalton & Associates, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Abbe David Lowell, Christopher D. Man, Winston & Strawn, Washington, DC for defendant.
    Case Number: 23-61 (MN)

    Court declined to dismiss charges based on immunity purportedly conferred by a diversion agreement since the agreement lacked the approval necessary for it to go into effect and the parties and court disputed the scope of immunity.

  • McDougal v. State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicole M. Walker, Office of Defense Services, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew R. Fletcher, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: 170, 2023

    Police lacked articulable facts to suspect individual on sidewalk of loitering and thus unlawfully detained the individual for a pat down search.

  • United States v. Long

    Publication Date: 2024-03-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Hardiman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Troy Rivetti, Donovan J. Cocas, Laura S. Irwin, Matthew S. McHale, Office of United States Attorney, Pittsburgh, PA for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelvin L. Morris, Law Office of Kelvin L. Morris, Pittsburgh, PA for appellee.
    Case Number: 22-3033

    District court procedurally erred in excluding evidence in child pornography prosecution by not viewing proffered materials before concluding that the risk of unfair prejudice outweighed the materials' probative value.

  • McGuiness v. State

    Publication Date: 2024-02-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven P. Wood, Chelsea A. Botsch, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE, Dean A. Elwell, McCarter & English, LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David C. McBride, M. Paige Valeski, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: 438, 2022

    Official misconduct conviction reversed where trial court delayed in recognizing legal insufficiency of procurement law violation charge, thereby allowing jury to hear evidence on the procurement charge that could have spilled over into the jury's consideration of the official misconduct charge.

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    Wrongful Use of Civil Proceedings and Related Torts in Pennsylvania, Second Edition

    Authors: George Bochetto, David P. Heim, John A. O’Connell, Robert S. Tintner

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  • State v. Calhoun

    Publication Date: 2024-02-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian L. Arban, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Herbert W. Mondros, Rigrodsky Law, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Karl Schwartz, Catherine Trama, Wiseman & Schwartz, Philadelphia, PA for defendant.
    Case Number: 1804000397

    Ineffective assistance of counsel claims failed where trial counsel's preparation and examination of witnesses was reasonable trial strategy to avoid playing into the state's theory of voluntary intoxication, and where any additional evidence was unlikely to have changed the verdict from guilty but mentally ill to not guilty by reason of insanity.

  • Hudson v. State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Griffiths
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raymond D. Armstrong, Office of Defense Services, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian L. Arban, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: 303, 2022

    Court upheld the introduction of expert testimony regarding probabilistic genotyping analysis where the testing had undergone validation studies and peer review and enjoyed general acceptance by the scientific community and many other courts.

  • United States v. Amos

    Publication Date: 2024-01-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Nygaard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Abigail E. Horn, Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, West Philadelphia, PA for appellant.
    for defendant: Anthony J. Carissimi, Timothy M. Stengel, Robert A. Zauzmer, Office of United States Attorney, Philadelphia, PA for appellee.
    Case Number: 20-3298

    Although officers displayed authority by blocking defendant and commanding him to stop, no seizure occurred where defendant's momentary pause followed by running from the officers meant he never complied with the officers' authority, and his flight gave the officers reasonable suspicion to detain him. Conviction affirmed, judgment of sentence vacated and remanded for resentencing.

  • United States v. Caraballo

    Publication Date: 2023-12-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Montgomery-Reeves
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gino A. Bartolai, Jr., Pittston, PA for appellant.
    for defendant: Gerard M. Karama, Robert J. O’Hara, Office of the United States Attorney, Scranton, PA for appellee.
    Case Number: 22-1976

    Multiple stab wounds, including one to the chest, plus a broken jaw constituted injuries severe enough to meet the definition of "serious bodily injury" as defined by the Commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines.

  • Rowan v. Warden James T. Vaughn Corr. Ctr.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Shwartz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David R. Fine, K&L Gates, Harrisburg, PA for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew J. Vella, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: 22-1298

    Failure to be expressly advised of continued no-contact order at second arraignment did not violate due process where the terms of the order explicitly stated that it remained in effect until changed/withdrawn or until the case ended.