Case Title: Allen v. State

Citation: 

Docket Number: 102, 2016

State: delaware

Court: Delaware Supreme Court

Date: 2016-05-24T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
ROMONE V. ALLEN, 
 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Plaintiff Below, 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 102, 2016 
§ 
§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  Cr. ID No. 1207010588 
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  Submitted:  April 21, 2016 
 
 
 
 
  Decided:  May 24, 2016 
 
Before STRINE, Chief Justice, VALIHURA, and SEITZ, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
This 24th day of May 2016, upon consideration of the appellant’s opening 
brief, the appellee’s motion to affirm, and the record below, it appears to the Court 
that: 
(1) 
The appellant, Romone V. Allen, resolved two cases by pleading 
guilty to two counts of Drug Dealing and one count of Resisting Arrest with Force 
on September 5, 2013.  In July 2014, Allen filed a motion for postconviction relief 
under Superior Court Criminal Rule 61.  In the motion, which was supplemented 
several times, Allen asserted violations of Brady v. Maryland1 and Brady v. United 
                                                 
1 373 U.S. 83 (1963). 
2 
 
States2 based upon misconduct at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner 
(“OCME”).   
(2) 
Relying upon this Court’s decisions in Ira Brown v. State3 and 
Aricidiacono v. State,4 the Superior Court dismissed Allen’s motion in an order 
dated February 3, 2016.5  This appeal followed.  For the reasons stated in our 
previous cases and the Superior Court’s February 3, 2016 order, we affirm the 
Superior Court’s denial of postconviction relief in this appeal.6  Allen’s motion for 
postconviction relief failed to plead any basis to avoid the effect of his voluntary 
and knowing guilty plea, and he has not suffered an unjust conviction.   
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that motion to affirm is GRANTED 
and the judgment of the Superior Court is AFFIRMED. 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Collins J. Seitz, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice 
 
                                                 
2 397 U.S. 742 (1970). 
3 108 A.3d 1201 (Del. 2015). 
4 125 A.3d 677 (Del. 2015). 
5 State v. Allen, 2016 WL 520716, at *2-3 (Del. Feb. 3, 2016). 
6 See nn. 3-5.  See also Anzara Brown v. State, 117 A.3d 568, 581 (Del. 2015); Patrick L. Brown 
v. State, 2015 WL 3372271, at *2 (Del. May 22, 2015); Carrero v. State, 2015 WL 3367940, at 
*2 (Del. May 21, 2015).