From DelawareOnline:

In the past year, charges against defendants in eight homicide cases were dropped, dismissed by a judge or jury or reduced to near misdemeanors in what some are calling an unprecedented string of apparent failures by the Delaware Attorney General’s Office.

The most recent took place about two weeks ago, when a jury found an 18-year-old not guilty of first-degree murder in a Wilmington shooting — he was convicted of conspiracy — marking the third time in a year that a jury cleared a suspect of all homicide charges after a trial.

In November, prosecutors quietly dropped all charges against a 17-year-old who was days away from facing trial for a different Wilmington slaying. On the same day, the state also dropped all charges against one of two men in the 2008 fatal shooting of a Newark-area Dunkin’ Donuts manager, even though they initially planned to seek the death penalty.

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