Case Title: Piper v. State

Citation: 

Docket Number: 269, 2018

State: delaware

Court: Delaware Supreme Court

Date: 2018-06-19T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
ROBERT PIPER, 
 
Defendant Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Plaintiff Below- 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 269, 2018 
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§  Court Below—Court of Common Pleas 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  Cr. ID 1705008720 (S) 
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Submitted: June 4, 2018 
 
 
 
 
   Decided: June 19, 2018 
 
Before STRINE, Chief Justice; SEITZ and TRAYNOR, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
Upon consideration of the notice to show cause and the appellant’s response, 
it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
On May 21, 2018, the Court received the appellant’s notice of appeal 
from a Court of Common Pleas’ order dated August 25, 2017, sentencing him for a 
violation of probation.  The Senior Court Clerk issued a notice under Supreme Court 
Rule 29(b) directing the appellant to show cause why the appeal should not be 
dismissed for this Court’s lack of jurisdiction to consider an appeal directly from the 
 
 
2 
Court of Common Pleas.1  The appellant filed a response on June 4, 2018.  His 
response does not address this Court’s lack of jurisdiction to consider his appeal.  
(2) 
This Court has no jurisdiction under the Delaware Constitution to 
consider an appeal directly from the Court of Common Pleas.2  Moreover, even if 
the appellant had properly filed his notice of appeal in the Superior Court, his 
untimely appeal would have been subject to dismissal by that court.3   
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the appeal is DISMISSED.   
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Gary F. Traynor 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice 
                                                 
1 Del. Const. art. IV, § 11(b). 
2Id. 
3See Del. C.C.P. Crim. R. 37(a) (criminal appeals from the Court of Common Pleas are to the 
Superior Court); Del. Super. Ct. Crim. R. 39(a) (criminal appeals to the Superior Court must be 
filed within 15 days of sentencing).