State v. Rooks

This is an appeal by the State, under 10 Del.C. § 9902, which is before us for the second time. The central issue in the appeal involves a ruling by a Trial Judge in the Superior Court that statements made by a prospective State witness were inadmissible in a prosecution for first-degree murder. See 11 Del.C. § 3507. After ruling on distinctions between the judge-jury issue of voluntariness and the jury issue of reliability, we remanded the case to the Superior Court for reconsideration of its order on the evidence issue. Reference is made to our prior opinion for a full statement of the…