COLE v. STATE

No. 425, 2004.

922 A.2d 354 (2005)

Donald COLE, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: October 19, 2005.

Revised: October 20, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Heyden and Jan A.T. van Amerongen, Jr. (argued), Wilmington, DE, for appellant.

John R. Williams, Department of Justice, Dover, DE, for appellee.

Before STEELE, Chief Justice, BERGER, and RIDGELY, Justices.


STEELE, Chief Justice:

Pursuant to an agreement he thought he had with the State, the defendant-appellant, Donald Cole, made a statement to the police and prosecutor implicating one of his accomplices to a crime. The police confronted the accomplice with Cole's statement. Cole believed that the agreement he had reached before making his statement prohibited the State from using the statement for any purpose other than determining...

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