Supreme Court of Delaware

Benson v. State

November 6, 2020

Summary

The Court affirmed Benson’s conviction for attempted first-degree rape. It rejected his claims concerning false statements, speedy trial, amendment of the indictment, double jeopardy, the lesser-included-offense instruction, evidentiary sufficiency, and alleged prosecutorial use of false testimony, applying plain-error review where claims were unpreserved and concluding that the preserved claims lacked merit.