Ayers v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “a specific unanimity instruction is not required in every case where a defendant may be convicted as a principal or as an accomplice” (emphasis in original)
• “The standard of review for a denial of a requested jury instruction is de novo.”
• “A specific unanimity instruction is required . . . if one count encompasses two separate incidents, either of which could support a defendant’s conviction for a particular charge.”
• “A specific unanimity instruction is required . . . if one count encompasses two separate incidents, either of which could support a defendant’s conviction for a particular charge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-02-07· cited 32×
• Flamer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-07-01· cited 26×
• Dougherty v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-06-09· cited 23×
• Banther v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-07-29· cited 18×
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-11-08· cited 13×
• Hoskins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-02-22· cited 10×
• Chambers v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-05-21· cited 9×
• Ayers v. Phelps
  D. Delaware· 2010-07-15· cited 1×
• Mentore v. Metropolitan Restaurant Management Company
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-01-08
• Fleetwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-10-06
• Cosby v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-02-20
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2022-03-14

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Probst v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-08-10· cited 97×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-10-20· cited 44×
• Floudiotis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1999-04-06· cited 43×
• Chance v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-11-08· cited 43×
• Stevenson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-04-14· cited 36×
• Burke v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-10-23· cited 35×
• Tze Poong Liu v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-08-17· cited 27×
• Atkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-04-08· cited 18×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-04-04· cited 18×
• Demby v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-01-10· cited 10×
• Longfellow v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-02-10· cited 6×
• Yocum v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-07-31· cited 5×
• Holder v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-04-03· cited 3×