Supreme Court of Delaware

In a case involving a plea agreement and an agreement to work undercover in exchange for sentencing leniency where the arrangement has subsequently gone haywire, the lower court's judgment is vacated and remanded in part where: 1) the State, in contrast to its implied duty to act in good faith, unreasonably rejected the "work" that the accused proposed; and 2) the more appropriate remedy is to enforce the State's promise to withhold petitioning for habitual offender status.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/26/2008
• Published 02/26/2008

Judges

• STEELE, Chief Justice., Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND and JACOBS, Justices.

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bernard J. O'Donnell, Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, Delaware, for appellant.


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