Ramon Ruffin, Defendant-Below v. State of Delaware, Plaintiff-Below

Summary

The court affirmed Ruffin’s convictions and 113-year minimum sentence, rejecting his challenges to the admission of an ATF firearm-trace report, the reliability of eyewitness identifications, the denial of a missing-evidence instruction, and cumulative error. It held that the ATF report was admissible as a trustworthy public record, that the suggestive photographic procedure did not make the in-court identifications unreliable, and that the State had no duty to conduct DNA testing after collecting and preserving the gun and swabs.