Alan Fowler, Defendant Below, Appellant v. State of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware held that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that its nondisclosure of four key witnesses' prior statements was harmless. The later indictment of the State's ballistics expert materially undermined the other principal evidence identifying Fowler as the shooter, making it improper to use either compromised evidentiary strand to validate the other. The court reversed the denial of post-conviction relief, vacated the convictions, and remanded for a new trial limited to the charges on which Fowler was convicted.