Supreme Court of Delaware

Conviction for burglary and robbery is affirmed where: 1) a prosecutor's reference in his opening statement to the television show "CSI" was improper but did not violate defendant's due process rights; 2) testimony of the sister of the complaining witness was properly admitted under the excited-utterance hearsay exception; and 3) defendant waived his argument that the state failed to establish the predicate foundation for admission of a statement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/24/2008
• Published 10/24/2008

Judges

• STEELE, Chief Justice., Before STEELE, Chief Justice, BERGER and RIDGELY, Justices.

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

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


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