State v. Russo

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A] recantation is received with great caution in a sexual misconduct case when the recanting witness is a relative of the defendant.”
• “A motion for a new trial based on a witness’ recantation is generally viewed with suspicion. This is because a recantation has traditionally been viewed as the ‘product of prison atmosphere to be received with great caution.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-09-10· cited 33×
• Williams v. Government of the Virgin Islands
  Virgin Islands· 2003-05-30· cited 9×
• State of Delaware v. Wright.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2014-08-19
• State v. Benson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-05-31
• State v. Ward
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-11-19
• Purnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-06-17