Davis v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware held that the Superior Court abused its discretion by failing to decide Davis’s preserved claim that the traffic-stop exit order violated Article I, § 6 of the Delaware Constitution. The trial court’s federal-constitutional ruling did not resolve the distinct state-constitutional challenge, which required a legal rationale and potentially additional factual findings concerning the officer’s safety justification and exit-order practices. The case was remanded for that claim to receive full and fair consideration.