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STATE v. SPENCE

367 A.2d 983 (1976)

STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff, v. Herbert Lee SPENCE, Defendant. Roy Luther RICHARDSON, Defendant below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff below, Appellee. Franklin C. FORAKER, Defendant below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff below, Appellee. Linwood Lee SHIELDS, Defendant below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff below, Appellee. Alan B. CARPENTER, Defendant below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff below, Appellee. Clarence HOOKS, Defendant below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff below, Appellee. Sterling HOBBS, Defendant below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff below, Appellee. Wilbur JOHNSON, Defendant below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff below, Appellee. Robert GOLSON, Defendant below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff below, Appellee. Regent J. GODDARD, Defendant below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided October 22, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard R. Wier, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Charles M. Oberly, III, State Prosecutor, Wilmington, for the State in all cases.

Arlen B. Mekler, Asst. Public Defender, Wilmington, for defendants Herbert Lee Spence, Roy Luther Richardson, Alan B. Carpenter, Clarence Hooks, Sterling Hobbs, Robert Golson and Regent J. Goddard.

Jerome O. Herlihy and Stephen P. Casarino, Wilmington, for defendant Franklin C. Foraker.

George F. Gardner, III and I. Barry Guerke, of Schmittinger & Rodriguez, Dover, and James A. Fuqua, Jr., of Ennis & Fuqua, Georgetown, for defendant Linwood Lee Shields.

Before HERRMANN, C. J., DUFFY, and McNEILLY, JJ.

HERRMANN, Chief Justice:

This certification presents the question of the constitutionality of capital punishment for first degree murder under 11 Del.C. §§ 636 and 4209.1 in light of the recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court in Woodson v. North Carolina, 428 U.S. 280, 96 S.Ct. 2978, 49 L.Ed...

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