A videotaped confession in the murder case of freed former death row inmate Jermaine Wright will be allowed to be used by prosecutors in the retrial.
Delaware’s Supreme Court unanimously overturned a lower court ruling that threw out the confession in the 1991 death of Phillip Seifert.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that the confession was a key element in the state’s death penalty case when Wright was tried twenty years ago.
The paper reports that this means Wright will be taken into custody to await his trial.
The 66 year old Wright has been oone of the longest serving death row inmate in Delaware.
