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- Title: Richard Stroik and Ronald Biddle v. State
- Author : Supreme Court of Delaware
- Release Date : January 12, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
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VEASEY, Chief Justice: In this appeal we review several assignments of error asserted to reverse sentences imposed on convictions for various offenses. Defendants below-appellants, Ronald Biddle and Richard Stroik (""Stroik and Biddle"" or ""defendants""), appeal sentences of the Superior Court based on convictions for racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, felony theft and misdemeanor theft on various grounds enumerated below. We find that the contentions of Stroik and Biddle are without merit and hold that: (1) the search warrant issued in this case by Justice of the Peace Court 18 did not exceed that court's jurisdiction to issue search warrants; (2) the Superior Court's factual findings were supported by ample record evidence; (3) the Superior Court did not err in holding that the State's failure to release the criminal records of its witnesses was harmless error; (4) the evidence adduced at trial was sufficient to demonstrate the elements of the crime of racketeering as defined by the Delaware Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (""RICO"") statute; (5) the State adduced sufficient evidence to support defendants' convictions for conspiracy to commit racketeering; and (6) the offenses of racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering do not merge under 11 Del.C. § 521(c). Accordingly, we AFFIRM.