by OpenFile | Jan 15, 2016 | Delaware, The Open File Blog
Longtime readers of the Open File are familiar with the Jermaine Wright case. We wrote about it here and here. Mr. Wright spent 21 years on Delaware’s death row based almost solely* on a discredited confession the police obtained through a 13-hour session with...
by Alec | Dec 18, 2015 | Delaware
In a striking pattern in such a small state, for the third time in two years, the Delaware Supreme Court has reversed a death sentence and murder conviction based on prosecutorial misconduct. In 2014, we reported on the case of Jermaine Wright, who had spent 21 years...
by Alec | Jan 22, 2015 | Delaware, The Open File Blog
In an opinion remarkable for its forthright criticism of a prosecutor’s “demeaning and belligerent” conduct toward a pro se defendant, the Supreme Court of Delaware has overturned the conviction and death sentence of a Kent County man for a 2010...
by OpenFile | May 21, 2014 | Alabama, Delaware, The Open File Blog
Two capital cases have been overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct in recent weeks: (1) William Ziegler’s case out of Mobile County, Alabama, and (2) Jermaine Wright’s case out of New Castle County, Delaware. In both cases, prosecutors sought to win...
by OpenFile | May 30, 2013 | Delaware, The Open File Blog
Update: In a unanimous ruling delivered on May 19, 2014, the Delaware Supreme Court overturned Wright’s conviction and sentence due to the suppression of exculpatory evidence by prosecutors and police in his case. Read the Court’s opinion here. Original...
