Case Title: Sanders v. State

Citation: 

Docket Number: 260, 2016

State: delaware

Court: Delaware Supreme Court

Date: 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
CHARLES B. SANDERS, 
 
 
Defendant Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Plaintiff Below- 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 260, 2016 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  Cr. ID 9312012607  
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Submitted: June 22, 2016 
 
 
 
 
Decided: 
August 1, 2016 
 
Before STRINE, Chief Justice; HOLLAND and SEITZ, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
This 1st day of August 2016, upon consideration of appellant Charles 
Sanders’ opening brief, the State’s motion to affirm, and the record below, the 
Court concludes that the judgment below should be affirmed on the basis of the 
Superior Court’s well-reasoned decision dated May 20, 2016.  The Superior Court 
did not err in dismissing Sanders’ amended eighth motion for postconviction relief 
because the motion was procedurally barred and failed to satisfy the pleading 
requirements of Superior Court Criminal Rule 61(d)(2).  
 
Moreover, we note that this Court previously enjoined Sanders from filing 
any future appeals or petitions relating to his 1994 convictions unless he first made 
the required certifications under 10 Del. C. § 8803(e) and was granted leave of the 
 
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Court to proceed in forma pauperis.1  In this case, Sanders’ motion to proceed in 
forma pauperis omitted the sworn certification that he previously had been found 
by a Delaware court to have engaged in factual or legally frivolous litigation and 
had been enjoined from future filings.  Although his in forma pauperis motion was 
granted on June 30, 2016, we now hold that that order was improvidently issued.  
Thus, that order is RESCINDED and Sanders’ in forma pauperis status is hereby 
REVOKED.  The prior injunction remains in effect. 
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that this Court’s June 30, 2016 
order granting Sanders’ in forma pauperis status is hereby RESCINDED.  The 
judgment of the Superior Court is AFFIRMED. 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT:  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Leo E. Strine, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chief Justice  
 
                                               
 
1 See Sanders v. State, 2015 WL 3766447, at *2 (Del. June 12, 2015).