Letter from Co-Defendant Fails to Sway Judge in McMullan Sentencing
"I want to make it clear I am not changing or modifying the sentence I was in the process of imposing last week before I was interrupted by the defendant’s actions," Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus said as Deobra Delone Redden stood in shackles before her. H...
Petitioner contends that during the period between his arraignment and sentence he was permitted to write but one letter a week and that all mail received by him was taken from him and destroyed. Even if such allegations be true, they are not grounds for relief in this proceeding. The manne...
Before BARRETT and SEYMOUR, Circuit Judges, and CHILSON*, District Judge. BARRETT, Circuit Judge. The appellants, Darryl E. Duke (Duke) and James R. Gallup (Gallup) were jointly tried by jury and convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 371, Conspiracy to Defraud the United States government...
CONCLUSION 101 SUPERIOR COURT OF DELAWARE MEMORANDUM *1 FROM: JUDGE BALICK TO: Superior Court Judges September 22, 1987 RE: Proposed Rule for Postconviction Proceedings In accordance with Justice Holland's letter dated September 14, I have inserted language on page 1 making the rule interim for ...
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While it probably would have been advisable for the trial judge to have ordered a change of venue, we conclude that it was not reversible error for her to proceed to impanel the jury. A change of venue would undoubtedly have occasioned great inconvenience both to the defense and to the ...
After the trial, Isaac Ricabal, one of the coconspirators who had testified against Monreal, Lugo, and O'Conner, wrote a letter to the district court judge claiming he had testified falsely. He claimed to have done so because the Lonas were threatening him and his family, and also because...