Legal Opinion
State v. Bailey
Superior Court of Delaware
Decided September 10, 1986PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RIDGELY, Judge.
Defendant, Billie Bailey, has applied to this Court pro se to withdraw a motion for postconviction relief from his 1980 capital murder convictions and accompanying sentences of death. His court-appointed defense counsel contends that Bailey is not competent to make such a decision and that the purported waiver is involuntary. A hearing on the issues of Bailey’s present competency and the proffered waiver was held on August 27, 1986.
I. Background
In February of 1980, Billie Bailey was convicted by a jury of Robbery in the First Degree, 11 Del.C. § 882(a)(2), two counts of…
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