IN RE STATE FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS

No. 54, 2007.

918 A.2d 1151 (2007)

In the Matter of the PETITION OF the STATE of Delaware FOR a WRIT OF MANDAMUS.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: February 16, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Loren C. Meyers, and Paul R. Wallace, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE, for the State of Delaware.

J. Brendan O'Neill, Kevin J. O'Connell, Bernard J. O'Donnell, and Nicole M. Walker, Assistant Public Defenders, Wilmington, DE, for Defendant James E. Cooke.

Charles M. Oberly, III, and Karen V. Sullivan, Oberly, Jennings & Rhodunda, P.A., Wilmington, DE, for Judge Jerome O. Herlihy.

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


HOLLAND, Justice:

This Court has before it a petition that seeks to invoke its original jurisdiction for the purpose of issuing an extraordinary writ. The petition was filed by the State of Delaware and requests that this Court issue a writ of mandamus to Superior Court Judge Jerome O. Herlihy. The underlying matter that gave rise to the present proceeding is an evidentiary ruling during an ongoing capital murder trial.

James E. Cooke ("Cooke"), who is represented...

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