Entries tagged with “Chauncey Starling”
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Dec 28, 2015
Delaware Supreme Court Overturns Third Death Sentence in Two Years Due to Prosecutorial Misconduct
For the third time in two years, the Delaware Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of a death row inmate because his trial was tainted by prosecutorial misconduct. On December 14, the court ordered a retrial for Chauncey Starling, who was convicted in 2003 of killing two people in a Wilmington barber shop, in part because prosecutors had failed to disclose that they had dropped charges against a key witness for violating his parole. Instead, prosecutors informed defense counsel that those…