Supreme Court of Delaware

Defendant's convictions for Second Degree Rape and two counts of Unlawful Sexual Contact are reversed and remanded where prosecutorial misconduct, which occurred during cross-examination when the prosecutor insinuated through a question that defendant had some prior -familiarity with sex offenses," constituted plain error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2006
• Published 09/01/2006

Judges

• STEELE, Chief Justice., Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices, constituting the Court en Banc.

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald D. Phillips, Jr. and James D. Nutter (argued), Georgetown, Delaware, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kim Ayvazian, Department of Justice, Georgetown, Delaware, for appellee.