Legal Opinion
State v. Dickens
Superior Court of Delaware
Decided October 18, 1989PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HERLIHY, Judge.
This matter is before the Court on defendant’s motion for postconviction relief pursuant to Superior Court Criminal Rule 61. The judge who tried this case has retired from the bench since the trial and the matter was reassigned to me for consideration. Rule 61(d)(1). After preliminary consideration, pursuant to Rule 61(e), the Court appointed counsel for the defendant and directed the State to respond.
I
On August 16, 1979, the defendant Lawrence B. Dickens walked into the Wilmington Bus Station then located at Fourth and Market Streets in search of his girlfriend, Elmira Handy.…
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