STATE v. ROOKS


401 A.2d 943 (1979)

STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff below, Appellant, v. John Preston ROOKS, Defendant below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided April 25, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merritt Burke III, Deputy Atty. Gen., Georgetown, for plaintiff below, appellant.

Robert C. Wolhar, Jr., of Wolhar & Moore, Georgetown, for defendant below, appellee.

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


McNEILLY, Justice (for the majority):

In this first degree murder case the State appeals a pre-trial ruling of the Trial Judge declaring two statements of a previously tried co-defendant inadmissable. The first statement was found by the Trial Judge to have been involuntarily obtained by the police because it was induced by the promise of freedom from charges arising out of an unrelated pending robbery case, and by the expectation...

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