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Jackson v. State

Citations

  • 643 A.2d 1360
  • 1994 Del. LEXIS 228
  • 1994 WL 386417

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that technical noncompliance with the foundational requirements of section 3507 was harmless error
  • holding that the State violated a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel when its agent, the defendant’s former cellmate, deliberately elicited incriminating statements from the defendant while he was incarcerated without a lawyer present
  • cautioning against commenting on a defendant's failure to testify as showing a lack of remorse
  • cautioning against commenting on a defendant’s failure to testify as showing a lack of remorse
  • finding that the “technical non- compliance with the foundational requirements” was harmless
  • distinguishing between claims raised “in the text of [an] opening brief’ and claims raised in headings and table of contends and concluding that failure to raise an argument in the text constitutes a waiver of the argument

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Judges: Veasey, Moore, Walsh, Holland, Hartnett

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