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Gregory v. State

Citations

  • 616 A.2d 1198
  • 1992 Del. LEXIS 476

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the elements of the crime of possession with intent to deliver “require no proof of conduct involving lying, deceiving, cheating, stealing or defrauding”
  • concluding that the elements of the crime of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver “require no proof of conduct involving lying, deceiving, cheating, stealing or defrauding”
  • determining that drug-related offenses, such as possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, do not involve dishonesty and thus do not relate to credibility
  • rejecting reasoning similar to that applied by the trial court in the present case
  • “the dual purpose of the rule is to protect the privacy of the resident as well as to reduce the possibility of danger to the officers and citizens alike.”
  • “[P]ast convictions for narcotics offenses created a substantial risk that the jury would draw the character inference, forbidden by D.R.E. 404(b

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Judges: Veasey, Moore, Holland

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