Superior Court President Judge Jan R. Jurden on Thursday lifted a temporary stay of all trials and penalty hearings in those murder cases, three days after Attorney General Matt Denn said his office would not seek an appeal of the state high court’s ruling in Rauf v. State, the case striking down the First State’s capital punishment scheme.
In a one-page administrative directive, Jurden lifted her Feb. 1 order calling a halt to the proceedings, until the justices weighed in on certified questions raised by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that nixed a similar sentencing scheme in Florida for violating the Sixth Amendment right to a trial by jury.
