Legal Opinion

Miller v. State

Supreme Court of Delaware

Decided March 9, 2006No. 312,2005PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

STEELE, Chief Justice.

Police arrested and a New Castle County grand jury indicted Sylvester Miller for Rape First Degree and Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child for sexually assaulting his daughter, Alicia Miller. On March 28, 2005, a trial jury returned a guilty verdict on six counts of Rape First Degree and one count of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child. 1 Miller now appeals these convictions. Miller raises eight claims of error: (1) the trial judge abused his discretion by refusing to allow voir dire on whether individual prospective jurors would give more weight to a police officer’s…

2Cases cited42 opinions

  1. Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  2. Wainwright v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1986
  3. Paramount Communications Inc. v. QVC Network Inc.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1994
  4. United States v. EspinosaCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1985
  5. Capano v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2001

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3Cited by14 opinions

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  3. Weber v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2009
  4. Wright v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2008
  5. Hassan-El v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2006

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