Legal Opinion

State v. Wright

Superior Court of Delaware

Decided August 12, 1994No. Cr.A. IN91-04-1947R1 to IN91-04-1953R1PublishedCited by 55 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

Del PESCO, Judge.

This is the Court’s decision on defendant Jermaine Wright’s motion for postconviction relief pursuant to Superior Court Criminal Rule 61. Defendant was convicted of two counts of Murder First Degree, Robbery First Degree, and related weapons offenses. Pursuant to 11 Del.C. § 4209(d) 1 a jury unanimously found the existence of circumstances statutorily mandating the imposition of the death sentence. This Court concurred, and in its sentencing decision of October 22, 1992, defendant was sentenced to death by lethal injection. State v. Wright, Del.Super., Cr.A. No.…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Darden v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. Lockhart v. FretwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  4. Eddings v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  5. Harris v. ReedSupreme Court of the United States · 1989

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3Cited by55 opinions

  1. Outten v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1998
  2. Shelton v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2000
  3. Wright v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2014
  4. Richardson v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2010
  5. State v. WrightSupreme Court of Delaware · 2013

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