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Riley v. State

Citations

  • 496 A.2d 997
  • 1985 Del. LEXIS 470

How courts have described this case

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  • in context of determining intercase proportionality, noting without explanation that evidence that co-defendant had received a lesser penalty had been admitted as a mitigating circumstance
  • prosecutor's passing comment to jury that its decision would be automatically reviewed not reversible error under Caldwell
  • prosecutor's passing comment to jury that its decision would be automatically reviewed not reversible error under Caldwell
  • Black jurors constitute a “distinctive group.”
  • Black jurors constitute a \distinctive group.\

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Judges: Herrmann, McNeilly, Horsey, Moore, Christie

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