Adams v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed the denial of Adams’s first motion for postconviction relief. It held that his confidential-informant confrontation claim was barred because it had been previously adjudicated, and that his ineffective-assistance claims failed because counsel’s decisions were reasonable and Adams could not show prejudicial error. The court also found no plain error in counsel’s failure to challenge the search warrant and upheld the withdrawal of postconviction counsel.