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Brown v. State

Citations

  • 721 A.2d 1263
  • 1998 Del. LEXIS 494
  • 1998 WL 919124

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the petitioner was collaterally estopped from questioning the legality of the search and seizure in the civil forfeiture case because the trial court had heard most of the issues in the course of a suppression hearing in the criminal case
  • “We review questions of collateral estoppel to determine if the parties had fully litigated the issue in question before another court.”
  • “The United States Supreme Court has never extended the Sixth Amendment right to compulsory process to apply to civil matters.”
  • establishing the relative burdens of proof in a forfeiture proceeding

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Judges: Veasey, Walsh, Holland

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