Legal Opinion
State v. Cohen
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided February 14, 1992PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Justice.
Defendants await trial for first-degree murder, and the State intends to seek the death penalty as to each of them. Issues concerning the construction and constitutionality of Delaware’s death penalty statute, as modified by 68 DeLLaws Ch. 181 (codified at 11 Del. C. § 4209) (the “new law”), 1 are presented in these questions certified to us by the Superior Court under Supreme Court Rule 41. With the exception of the charges against Henry L. De Jesus, all of the alleged murders occurred before the new law became effective. The defendants raise numerous constitutional objections…
2Cases cited39 opinions
- In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Wainwright v. WittSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Woodson v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Boyde v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
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3Cited by60 opinions
- Dawson v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1996
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- James William Riley v. Stanley W. Taylor M. Jane BradyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2001
- State v. RizzoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2003
- Capano v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2001
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