Cooke v. State

STRINE, Chief Justice:

I. INTRODUCTION

James E. Cooke was convicted of, among other things, raping and murdering Lindsey Bonistall, a 20-year-old University of Delaware student. Cooke now seeks to have the judgment of convictions and the death sentence that were entered against him in the Superior Court vacated and to receive a new trial, or at least a new penalty hearing. Cooke has raised ten claims of error on appeal that defy brief summary. But what is common to all of Cooke’s arguments is that none of them provides a basis for reversing the judgment of convictions and the death sentence…