SHY v. STATE


459 A.2d 123 (1983)

Ira L. SHY, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: April 6, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Natalie (argued), Woloshin & Tennenbaum, P.A., Wilmington, for appellant.

Eugene M. Hall, State Prosecutor, and Timothy J. Donovan, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen. (argued), Wilmington, for appellee.

Before HERRMANN, C.J., HORSEY and MOORE, JJ.


MOORE, Justice:

Following a trial in Superior Court, Ira L. Shy was convicted of trafficking in illegal drugs [16 Del.C. § 4753A(a)(3)], receiving a sentence of a $150,000 fine (which was suspended) and ten years in prison.1 In his appeal from that conviction, he contends that section 4753A violates the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment because the statute has no rational relationship to the control of illegal...

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