STARLING v. STATE

Nos. 260 & 269, 2004.

882 A.2d 747 (2005)

Chauncey STARLING, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: August 16, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard J. O'Donnell, Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, DE, for appellant.

Paul Wallace (argued), Thomas E. Brown, Elizabeth R. McFarland and Gregory E. Smith, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE, for appellee.

Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices, constituting the court en banc.


STEELE, Chief Justice:

In October 2003, a Superior Court jury convicted Chauncey S. Starling of first-degree murder and other offenses. The same jury, after a post-trial penalty hearing, recommended that Starling be executed. The trial judge agreed and imposed a death sentence. Starling now appeals, alleging eight procedural and constitutional defects in the voir dire, trial, and penalty phases of the proceedings. For the...

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