Ramazan Sahin, Defendant Below, Appellant v. State of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed Sahin’s convictions but declined to decide his ineffective-assistance and fair-trial claims on direct appeal because the record was inadequate and the claims were intertwined. The court found that counsel’s disclosures about Sahin’s rejection of a plea offer and alleged need for an interpreter could potentially have prejudiced Sahin’s credibility before the bench-trial judge, but held that those issues required development in a Rule 61 proceeding. No separate opinions were filed.