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FENSTERER v. STATE

509 A.2d 1106 (1986)

William A. FENSTERER, Defendant-Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: May 8, 1986.

Rehearing Denied: June 9, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Schmittinger (argued), Charles E. Whitehurst (argued), and William W. Pepper of Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, for defendant-appellant.

Richard E. Fairbanks, Jr., Chief of Appeals Division, (argued) and Timothy J. Donovan, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Wilmington, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CHRISTIE, C.J., and McNEILLY and HORSEY, JJ.

McNEILLY, Justice:

The defendant, William A. Fensterer, was convicted by a jury of murdering his fiance, Stephanie Ann Swift. On appeal, this Court reversed the defendant's conviction, holding that he had been denied his Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him when a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was unable to state the basis of his opinion, admitted into evidence, that a hair on...

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