Legal Opinion

Wright v. State

Supreme Court of Delaware

Decided May 27, 1977PublishedCited by 32 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

McNEILLY, Justice:

Defendant was convicted by a Superior Court jury of murder in the first degree, 11 Del.C. § 636, 1 and sentenced to life imprisonment. In this appeal he raises nine contentions, including the propriety of exclusion of evidence of medical malpractice and maltreatment as an intervening cause of death in a murder case, which we will consider in this opinion. We affirm the conviction.

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Defendant spent the night of January 28, 1974, at the apartment of friends in Laurel. The following morning he and a friend, who was staying in the same apartment, got up at about 10:30 or 11:00 a.…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Harris v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  3. Aldridge v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  4. People v. McGeeCalifornia Supreme Court · 1947
  5. Commonwealth v. CheeksSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1966

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3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Riley v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1985
  2. Dutton v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1982
  3. George L. Reynolds v. Jack C. Ellingsworth, Warden and Charles M. Oberly, IIICourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1988
  4. Sanders v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1990
  5. State v. DahlgrenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1986

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