AYALA v. STATE

No. 103, 2018.

204 A.3d 829 (2019)

Javier AYALA, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: February 11, 2019.

Reargument Denied February 28, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard J. O'Donnell, Esquire and James O. Turner, Jr., Esquire , (argued), Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, Delaware, for Appellant, Javier Ayala.

Carolyn S. Hake, Esquire , Department of Justice, Wilmington, Delaware, for Appellee, State of Delaware.

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


In July 2015, police officers stopped Javier Ayala for driving a vehicle with a suspended license. During a search of his vehicle and a subsequent search of his home under a previously issued warrant, officers found a .22-caliber pistol and 1,286 bags of heroin. The net weight of the bags' contents was approximately 15 grams. In...

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