Supreme Court of Delaware

Conviction for delivery of cocaine offenses is affirmed over claims that 1) the trial judge erred by denying his motion to dismiss pursuant to the common law corpus delicti rule; and 2) the state failed to introduce sufficient evidence for the jury to find that the substance defendant delivered was, in fact, cocaine.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/11/2008
• Published 02/11/2008

Judges

• STEELE, Chief Justice., Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, constituting the court en banc.

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William A. Gonser, Jr., Andrew W. Gonser, Nancy Y. Gorman, Tanisha L. Merced, Gonser and Gonser, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy J. Donovan, Jr., Department of Justice, Wilmington, Delaware, for appellee.