Supreme Court of Delaware

In an appeal from a conviction for rape-related offenses raising the issue of whether detective-witness's statement about obtaining defendant's date of birth from an "Automated Criminal Justice System" constituted a "prejudicial outburst" warranting a mistrial, the Delaware Supreme Court rules that although the prosecutor's question and detective's answers could have been better phrased, the trial judge's curative instruction rendered any error harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/14/2008
• Published 05/14/2008

Judges

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

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles E. Whitehurst, Jr., Esquire, and Adam Windett, Esquire (argued), of Charles E. Whitehurst, Jr., LLC, Dover, DE, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kevin M. Carroll, Esquire (argued), of the Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE, for appellee.