Robert E. Williams, Defendant-Below, Appellant v. State of Delaware, Plaintiff-Below, Appellee

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed the denial of Robert E. Williams’s motion for postconviction relief. It held that counsel’s failure to move to suppress Williams’s statement did not prejudice him because the approximately fifteen-hour delay before the statement was not unreasonable as a matter of law, and that counsel’s failure to present additional mitigation evidence did not create a reasonable probability of a lesser sentence. The court also rejected a categorical requirement that mitigation specialists be retained in serious non-capital cases.