POWELL v. DELAWARE

No. 310, 2016.

153 A.3d 69 (2016)

Derrick POWELL, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. State of DELAWARE, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: December 15, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick J. Collins, Esquire (Argued), Collins & Associates, Wilmington, Delaware; Natalie S. Woloshin, Esquire , Woloshin, Lynch & Natalie, Wilmington, Delaware, Attorneys for Defendant Below, Appellant.

Elizabeth R. McFarlan, Esquire , John R. Williams, Esquire (Argued), Department of Justice, Wilmington, Delaware, Attorneys for Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Herbert W. Mondros, Esquire , Margolis Edelstein, Wilmington, Delaware; Edson A. Bostic, Esquire , Tiffani D. Hurst, Esquire , Jenny Osborne, Esquire , Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, Delaware.

Thomas C. Grimm, Esquire , Rodger D. Smith II, Esquire , Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, Delaware, Attorneys for Amicus Curiae, Luis G. Cabrera, Jr.

Richard H. Morse, Esquire , Ryan Tack-Hooper, Esquire , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware; Brian W. Stull, Esquire , Cassandra Stubbs, Esquire , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Capital Punishment Project, Durham, North Carolina, Attorneys for Amici Curiae, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Delaware and the American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project.

Elena C. Norman, Esquire , Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, Esquire , Nicholas J. Rohrer, Esquire , Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP; Marc Bookman, Esquire , Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Attorneys for Amicus Curiae, the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation.

Before STRINE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, VALIHURA, VAUGHN, and SEITZ, Justices, constituting the Court en Banc.


The defendant below-appellant Derrick Powell is appealing the Superior Court's denial of his motion for postconviction relief.1 However, during the pendency of that appeal, Powell moved to vacate his death sentence based on the United States Supreme Court decision in Hurst v. Florida2

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