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LAWRIE v. STATE

Nos. 243, 282, 1993.

643 A.2d 1336 (1994)

David J. LAWRIE, Defendant-Below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff-Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: July 8, 1994.

Rehearing Denied July 19, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard J. O'Donnell, Public Defender's Office, Wilmington, for appellant.

Richard E. Fairbanks, Jr., Dept. of Justice, Wilmington, for appellee.

Before VEASEY, C.J., MOORE, WALSH, HOLLAND, and HARTNETT, JJ., constituting the Court en Banc.

VEASEY, Chief Justice:

In this case we review the sentences of death imposed on July 8, 1993, by the Superior Court on David J. Lawrie ("Lawrie") for the first degree felony murders of Fawn and Tabitha Lawrie, two of the three children of Lawrie and Lawrie's wife, Michelle Lawrie ("Michelle"), and a four-year-old neighborhood boy, Charles Humbertson.1

Lawrie deliberately set fire to the...

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