Case Title: Morgan v. State

Citation: 

Docket Number: 509, 2016

State: delaware

Court: Delaware Supreme Court

Date: 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
RICHARD J. MORGAN, 
 
Defendant Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Plaintiff Below- 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 509, 2016 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  Cr. ID 1003022700 
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Submitted: October 21, 2016 
 
 
 
 
Decided: 
November 21, 2016 
 
Before STRINE, Chief Justice; VAUGHN, and SEITZ, Justices 
 
ORDER 
 
 
This 21st day of November 2016, after careful consideration of the 
appellant’s opening brief, the State’s motion to affirm, and the record on 
appeal, the Court concludes that the September 20, 2016 order of the 
Superior Court dismissing the appellant’s second motion for postconviction 
relief should be affirmed.  The motion was subject to summary dismissal 
because it was the appellant’s second motion for postconviction relief 
following his 2011 guilty plea.1   
                                                 
1 Super. Ct. Crim. R. 61(d)(2) (2016) (emphasis supplied) (providing that a second or 
subsequent motion for postconviction relief shall be summarily dismissed unless the 
movant was convicted after trial and pleads with particularity a claim that the movant is 
actually innocent or a claim that a new rule of constitutional law is retroactively 
applicable and renders the conviction invalid). 
 
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NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the judgment of the 
Superior Court is AFFIRMED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Collins J. Seitz, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice