Bradley suffers another defeat in Supreme Court

Earl Bradley, the former pediatrician serving life behind bars for sexually abusing scores of children, suffered another defeat in court last month.

According to a decision issued by the Delaware Supreme Court, Bradley filed a writ of mandamus in May. That motion is meant to essentially ask the Supreme Court to order a lower court, in this case the Superior Court, to perform its duty if it is shown the complainant has a clear right to the act, or if the lower court has arbitrarily refused to act.

Bradley apparently asked the Supreme Court to order the Superior Court to consider a multitude of pending motions in his case. Bradley apparently claims that, since he filed some of the motions before the Supreme Court affirmed the judgement to deny a postconviction relief motion back in March, that the Superior Court would not consider those motions.

According to the decision handed down by the Supreme Court in June, the writ of mandamus was denied.

The court says Bradley, “…has not established a clear right to the relief he seeks, nor has he established that the Superior Court has arbitrarily refused the act.”

Bradley was convicted in 2011. According to court documents in his case,  police were able to document more than 100 incidents of sexual abuse. Prosecutors presented 89 separate incidents captured on video recorded by Bradley between 1998 and 2009, involving 86 individual children, the vast majority of which were infants and toddlers.