The Attorney General’s Office was the focus of Delaware’s criminal law bar for much of 2014. A new attorney general was elected for the first time in eight years and a longtime prosecutor was arrested on charges that he raped a teenager.

New Attorney General

Former Lt. Gov. Matt Denn was elected as the state’s newest attorney general in November 2014 with 53 percent of the vote. He will replace Beau Biden, who served as attorney general since 2006.