Legal Opinion
Bromwell v. State
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided March 23, 1981PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HORSEY, Justice:
Defendant, Eugene Bromwell, was convicted in a jury trial in Superior Court of Robbery II, 11 Del.C. § 831, and was sentenced to ten years in prison. Defendant’s appeal raises two issues: (1) whether the exclusionary rule required suppression of evidence obtained in a warrantless police search of a box in Bromwell’s possession made while Bromwell was under detention but not arrest; and (2) whether reversible error was committed by the State’s questioning of Bromwell as to any prior criminal record.
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About 3:30 in the morning on the day of defendant’s detention and arrest, an…
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