Supreme Court of Delaware

Finding of delinquency on two counts of rape in the second degree is reveresed and remanded for new trial where the Family Court judge abused her discretion when she failed to recuse herself because defendant's rape trial immediately followed an earlier trial in which she had found defendant guilty of robbery in the second degree.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/11/2007
• Published 09/12/2007

Judges

• STEELE, Chief Justice:, Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND and RIDGELY, Justices.

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• F. Phillip Renzulli, Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, DE, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Williams, Department of Justice, Dover, DE, for appellee.