Legal Opinion
Bailey v. State
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided September 30, 1980PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HORSEY, Justice.
Defendant, John H. Bailey, appeals Superior Court’s denial of his Rule 35(a) motion for postconviction relief as to his convictions in December, 1975 of manslaughter and possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony (the manslaughter). Defendant was sentenced on February 5,1976 to imprisonment for 30 years for the manslaughter and 10 years for the felony-weapon offense, the sentences to run consecutively.
Two issues are raised by this appeal: (1) whether defendant was denied his Sixth Amendment right of access to counsel when the Trial Judge instructed…
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