Javier Ayala, Defendant Below, Appellant v. State of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Summary

The Court affirmed Ayala's convictions and habitual-offender sentence. It held that the chemist's hypergeometric-testing testimony had an adequate foundation despite her inability to recall the precise sampling procedure, because she described and followed a routine procedure and the weaknesses principally affected weight rather than admissibility. It also held that Ayala qualified as a habitual offender because he had been convicted three times of felonies under Delaware law, even though some predicate offenses were later reclassified or eliminated.