Legal Opinion
Aricidiacono v. State
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided October 12, 2015No. 718, 2014PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STRINE, Chief Justice:
These consolidated cases all involve an identical question, which is whether a defendant who pled guilty after a colloquy and admitted to-crimes involving the possession of illegal narcotics should have her conviction vacated because she was unaware of serious problems at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (the “OCME”) involving the handling of narcotics evidence. 1 The Superior Court answered that question no, and held that the defendants were bound by their pleas. 2 A 2014 investigation by the Delaware State Police and the Department of Justice revealed that some…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- United States v. RuizSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2015
- Ferrara v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2006
- Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2015
3Cited by42 opinions
- Cannon v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2015
- Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2016
- Allen v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2016
- BanksSupreme Court of Delaware · 2015
- Boyce v. CoupeDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 2019
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