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Bailey v. State

Citations

  • 440 A.2d 997
  • 1982 Del. LEXIS 337

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the trial court abused its discretion in allowing the prosecution, during its rebuttal, to discuss testimony not mentioned by the defense or by the prosecution in its opening closing statement
  • finding that a tip from citizen informant was corroborated when police found the victim’s body at the identified location
  • finding a tip to be sufficiently corroborated where a known informant told the officer of the occurrence and location of a shooting and the police officer “confirmed the information by finding the victim’s body at the location described by [the informant]”
  • use of the State’s rebuttal closing argument to make new arguments to the jury so as to deprive defense counsel of the opportunity to reply to these arguments was prejudicial “sandbagging”

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Judges: Herrmann, Duffy, McNeilly

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