Turner v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• providing that § 3507 statements “must be offered into evidence no later than at the conclusion of direct examination of the declarant” to avoid placing “any strategic burden on the non-offering party.”
• reviewing the Superior Court’s admission of an out-of-court statement under § 3507 for abuse of discretion
• this court may excuse a waiver if it finds that the trial court committed plain error “requiring review in the interests of justice”
• interests of justice required the Court to review whether the trial judge left the courtroom before the defense finished closing argument because, if true, the trial judge’s behavior would have “jeopardize[d] the fairness and integrity of the trial process.”
• “We generally decline to review contentions not raised below and not fairly presented to the trial court for decision. This Court may excuse a waiver, however, if it finds that the trial court committed plain error requiring review in the interests of justice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

48 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-11-08· cited 102×
• Hoskins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-09-22· cited 89×
• Starling v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-12-14· cited 62×
• Shawe v. Elting
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-02-13· cited 53×
• Smith v. Delaware State University
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-07-05· cited 42×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-09-25· cited 36×
• Williamson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-03-23· cited 28×
• Zhurbin v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-10-17· cited 27×
• Dougherty v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-06-09· cited 23×
• Clark v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-06-28· cited 21×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-07-25· cited 17×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-11-15· cited 17×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-04-29· cited 15×
• Lowther v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-11-06· cited 11×
• Hoskins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-02-22· cited 10×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-06-22· cited 10×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-02-08· cited 10×
• Wyche v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-03-26· cited 6×
• Banks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-05-22· cited 2×
• Stanley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-03-15