Swan v. State

RIDGELY, Justice:

I. Introduction

A jury found that the Movant-Be-low/Appellant, Ralph Swan, and a co-defendant, Adam Norcross, crashed through the patio doors of the home of the Warren family in Kenton, Delaware in 1996, and shot twenty-seven-year-old Kenneth Warren to death in front of his twenty-four- year-old wife, Tina, and their nineteen-month-old son, Dustin. For that crime, the jury recommended to the trial judge, by a seven to five vote, that Swan should receive the death penalty. The trial judge agreed with that recommendation and imposed the death sentence. This Court affirmed Swan’s…