Johns v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed Johns’s convictions and sentence, holding that the trial court did not plainly err by admitting the NCIC-related testimony without sua sponte excluding it for hearsay or Confrontation Clause reasons. The Court also held that the search warrant was supported by probable cause because the July 2022 anonymous tip was corroborated by police surveillance and traffic stops. Finally, the Court rejected Johns’s facial constitutional challenge to the firearm-possession statute under plain-error review and declined to resolve his as-applied challenge because the record was insufficiently developed.