Lewis v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed the denial of Richard Lewis’s postconviction motion. It held that trial and appellate counsel were not ineffective for failing to more effectively present an unsettled argument concerning GPS monitoring outside Delaware, because counsel had no duty to anticipate new developments in the law. The Court also held that Lewis could not establish prejudice because neither the Delaware Supreme Court nor the United States Supreme Court had determined that such monitoring violated constitutional or statutory rights.