Case Title: Hall v. State

Citation: 

Docket Number: 51, 2024

State: delaware

Court: Delaware Supreme Court

Date: 2024-06-28T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
GIBSON A. HALL, 
 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 51, 2024 
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§  Court Below–Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  Cr. ID No. 88004234DI (N) 
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Submitted: April 18, 2024 
 
 
 
 
Decided: 
June 28, 2024 
 
Before VALIHURA, TRAYNOR, and LEGROW, Justices. 
 
ORDER 
After consideration of the appellant’s opening brief, the State’s motion to 
affirm, and the Superior Court record,1 we find it evident that the judgment below 
should be affirmed on the basis of and for the reasons cited by the Superior Court in 
its January 16, 2024 order denying the appellant’s repetitive2 motion for 
postconviction relief.3 
 
1 The appellant has also filed a motion asking the Court to take judicial notice of the motion for 
postconviction relief that he filed in the Superior Court because the State omitted a portion of that 
motion from its motion to affirm.  The Superior Court transmitted the entire trial court record—
including the appellant’s most recent motion for postconviction relief—to the Court in connection 
with his appeal.  The appellant’s motion to take judicial notice of that postconviction motion is 
therefore moot. 
2 It appears from the record that the Superior Court’s order on appeal denied the appellant’s fourth 
motion for postconviction relief. 
3 State v. Hall, 2024 WL 168387 (Del. Super. Ct. Jan. 16, 2024).  To the extent that the appellant 
questions the authenticity of the copy of the indictment that the Superior Court provided to him 
2 
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the judgment of the 
Superior Court be AFFIRMED. 
BY THE COURT: 
 
/s/ Gary F. Traynor 
Justice  
 
 
and argues that he was never indicted, he has previously acknowledged that he was, in fact, 
indicted by a Superior Court grand jury. See Hall v. State, No. 288, 2008,  Docket Entry No. 7, 
Opening Br. at 3 (Del. filed July 24, 2008) (“Gibson Hall was named in a two-count indictment 
by the Grand Jury of New Castle County, Delaware on August 7, 1979.  The indictment charged 
him with first degree murder, in violation of 11 Del. C. § 636(a)(1), and possession of a deadly 
weapon during the commission of a felony, 11 Del. C. § 1447(a).”).