PLOOF v. STATE

No. 108, 2012.

75 A.3d 840 (2013)

Gary PLOOF, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: September 18, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick J. Collins (argued), Collins & Roop, Wilmington, Delaware; Kathryn J. Garrison , Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, Delaware, for appellant.

John Williams , Department of Justice, Dover, Delaware, for appellee.

Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, JACOBS, Justices and STRINE, Chancellor constituting the Court en Banc.


STEELE, Chief Justice for the Majority:

This appeal addresses whether a defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel during the penalty phase of his first-degree murder trial. We previously rejected the defendant's claims arising from his trial's guilt phase, but we remanded his penalty phase claims for the postconviction judge to reweigh the aggravating circumstances against the mitigating circumstances established...

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