Supreme Court of Delaware
Morris v. State
May 13, 2019
Summary
The court affirmed Morris's convictions, rejecting challenges to the home-invasion verdict, the failure to conduct a proof-positive bail hearing, the subpoena for prison phone recordings, their authentication, and the delayed disclosure of impeachment material. It held that the home-invasion conviction could stand despite the jury's failure to reach a verdict on rape, that the waived bail hearing was unnecessary, that the subpoena was reasonable, and that the recordings were adequately authenticated. The court also found no reasonable probability that timely disclosure of the delayed information would have changed the result and therefore upheld the denial of a mistrial and requested jury instruction.