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No new bail hearing for Jermaine Wright

Delaware Public Media

No new bail hearing will be given for a man who spent 25 years on death row, but now awaits a new trial.

Jermaine Wright has spent nearly all of his adult life awaiting his execution after he was convicted in 1992 of shooting a liquor store employee to death outside of Wilmington.

 

He was eventually released last year after a Superior Court judge found the state’s evidence to be lacking, which included a heroin-fueled confession and an anonymous note accusing Wright of the crime.

 

The state Supreme Court ordered a new trial in January, with Wright headed back behind bars.

 

An order from Superior Court Judge Eric Davis this week says new evidence is needed to prompt a bail hearing and that reshaping existing arguments isn’t enough.

 

A lawyer for Wright says he’s disappointed about the order, but that an upcoming retrial will be “the first time he’ll get a fair trial after 25 years on death row.”

 

That trial is scheduled for next spring.

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