Christopher Rivers, Defendant Below, Appellant v. State of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed Rivers’s convictions for two murders and related offenses. It held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying a change of venue because the publicity was informational rather than sufficiently inflammatory and the court successfully empaneled an impartial jury. It also held that statements concerning payment for the murders remained within the course and furtherance of the murder-for-hire conspiracy and were admissible under the co-conspirator hearsay exception.