Reyes v. State
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In August 2022, Corey Reyes was involved in an altercation with his girlfriend, Jennifer Deems, which resulted in Deems sustaining a broken leg. Reyes was subsequently arrested and charged with second-degree assault, resisting arrest with force or violence, and disorderly conduct. At trial, Reyes and Deems provided differing accounts of the events leading up to the assault. Reyes was found guilty on all charges.
The Superior Court of the State of Delaware allowed an amendment to Reyes's indictment during the trial, changing the citation of the statute under which he was charged with resisting arrest. Reyes appealed his conviction, arguing that the amendment was substantive and thus impermissible. He also claimed that the prosecution made statements that constituted prosecutorial misconduct, affecting the integrity of the trial process and his substantive rights.
The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware affirmed the lower court's decision. The court found that the amendment to Reyes's indictment was one of form rather than substance, and thus permissible. The court also found that while some of the prosecutor's statements were improper, they did not rise to the level of plain error that would warrant reversal of Reyes's conviction. The court further noted that the prosecutor's statements did not constitute repetitive errors over multiple trials that would require reversal.
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