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DE: State High Court Reprimands and Disqualifies Prosecutors for Stealing Attorney-Client Information from Defendant’s Cell

by Bert | May 14, 2019 | The Open File Blog

Wildly inappropriate behavior from the office of the prosecutor in Delaware’s largest city generated fascinating discussion among the justices in a recent Delaware Supreme Court opinion. The decision concerns the court’s review of a lower court’s dismissal of Jacquez...
Likely Innocent Man Returns To Jail Due to False Confession – Sound Familiar?

Likely Innocent Man Returns To Jail Due to False Confession – Sound Familiar?

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...
DE: Brady Violation Leads to Latest in String of Death Sentence Reversals

DE: Brady Violation Leads to Latest in String of Death Sentence Reversals

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...

DE: Death Sentence Overturned in Case Involving “Demeaning and Belligerent” Prosecutor

by Alec | Aug 3, 2015 | The Open File Blog

Update – 8.3.2015 On July 27, the Supreme Court of Delaware voted to suspend state prosecutor R. David Favata from the practice of law for six months and one day in response to his misconduct in the capital trial of Isaiah McCoy. In a unanimous decision, the...
DE: Death Sentence Overturned in Case Involving “Demeaning and Belligerent” Prosecutor

DE: Death Sentence Overturned in Case Involving “Demeaning and Belligerent” Prosecutor

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...
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