Slater v. State

HOLLAND, Justice:

By information filed in the Family Court on March 6, 1990, the defendant-appellant, Charles Slater (“Slater”), was charged with committing several misdemeanor offenses against a victim who was a child (“the Family Court charges”). See 10 Del.C. § 922(a)(1). On the day before Slater’s trial was to begin, August 21, 1990, the prosecutor informed the Family Court by letter of the State’s intentions to nolle prosequi the Family Court charges and, thereafter, seek to indict Slater in the Superior Court. On September 17, 1990, Slater was charged, in an indictment by the grand jury,…