DEMBY v. STATE

No. 249, 1996.

695 A.2d 1127 (1997)

Raymond DEMBY a/k/a Raheen Love, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: June 27, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra W. Dean, Assistant Public Defender, Office of the Public Defender, Dover, for Appellant.

John Williams, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Dover, for Appellee.

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


WALSH, Justice:

In this appeal from the Superior Court, we are required to determine whether the 1994 statutory enactments, which liberalized the State's obligation to establish the chain of custody in drug cases, impair a defendant's due process rights under the United States and Delaware constitutions. We conclude that the statutes in question, 10 Del.C. §§ 4331-32, although lessening the State's burden...

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