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Delaware Court Rules › Superior Court › Rules of Criminal Procedure, Superior Court of Delaware › Del. Super. Ct. Crim. R. 1

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These rules govern the procedure in all criminal proceedings in Superior Court and in preliminary or

supplementary proceedings in other courts when the judge acts as a committing magistrate for Superior

Court.

History.

Adopted, effective Feb. 12, 1953; revised, effective Jan. 1, 1992.

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