Case Title: Washington v. State

Citation: 

Docket Number: 435, 2023

State: delaware

Court: Delaware Supreme Court

Date: 2024-02-27T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
MICHAEL T. WASHINGTON, 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 435, 2023 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  Cr. ID No. 0909018475A, B (N) 
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Submitted:   January 23, 2024 
 
 
 
 
Decided: 
February 27, 2024 
 
Before SEITZ, Chief Justice; LEGROW and GRIFFITHS, Justices. 
 
 
 
ORDER 
 
After careful consideration of the appellant’s opening brief, the appellee’s 
motion to affirm, and the Superior Court record,1 we conclude that the Superior 
 
1 The Court has also reviewed the documents that the appellant submitted after the State filed its 
motion to affirm—which include documents filed on January 29, 2024, February 5, 2024, and 
February 7, 2024—and has determined that they do not change the result.  Moreover, the appellant 
is incorrect that the State’s motion to affirm, filed January 23, 2024, was untimely because it was 
filed more than ten days after the opening brief was filed on January 10, 2024.  See DEL. SUPR. CT. 
R. 25(a) (authorizing service and filing of motion to affirm within ten days after service of opening 
brief); id. R. 11(a) (providing that “[i]n computing any period of time prescribed or allowed by 
these Rules . . ., the day of the act, event or default after which the designated period of time begins 
to run shall not be included” and the “last day of the period so computed shall be included, unless 
it is a Saturday or Sunday, or other legal holiday, or other day on which the office of the Clerk is 
closed, in which event the period shall run until the end of the next day on which the office of the 
Clerk is open”); id. R. 11(c) (“Whenever a participant has the right to or is required to do some act 
or take some proceeding within a prescribed period after being served and service is made by mail 
or by eFiling, 3 days shall be added to the prescribed period.  The additional 3 day period applies 
only as to acts taken by participants and does not apply to actions taken by the Court.”). 
2 
 
Court judgment should be affirmed on the basis of and for the reasons assigned in 
the Superior Court’s October 30, 2023 order2 and the Superior Court’s November 
14, 2023 order denying reargument or reconsideration of the October 30, 2023 order.  
We warn the appellant that if he continues to file appeals from orders dismissing 
untimely and repetitive claims in the Superior Court, he will be enjoined from filing 
future appeals without leave of the Court. 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the Motion to Affirm is 
GRANTED and the judgment of the Superior Court is AFFIRMED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ N. Christopher Griffiths 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice 
 
 
 
2 State v. Washington, 2023 WL 7140800 (Del. Oct. 30, 2023).