Legal Opinion
Worthy v. State
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided August 6, 2015No. 290, 2014PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEITZ, Justice:
I. INTRODUCTION
The defendant, Bruce Worthy, allegedly threatened his mother and brother with a gun. Worthy’s mother, Valerie Coleman, called 911 to report the threat, leading to Worthy’s arrest and a number of criminal charges. At trial, Coleman was one of the State’s main witnesses. 1 The State subpoenaed Coleman to testify, but she failed to appear at trial. The State tracked her down and put her in jail on a material witness capias. 2 When the State brought her from jail to testify, Coleman was uncooperative and tried to end her testimony by “plead[ing] the Fifth.” 3
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2Cases cited6 opinions
- Kastigar v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Glickstein v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Van Arsdall v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1987
- Dawson v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1992
- Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2014
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3Cited by2 opinions
- State v. SimmonsConnecticut Appellate Court · 2019
- State v. SimmonsConnecticut Appellate Court · 2019