Case Title: Ringgold v. State

Citation: 

Docket Number: 130, 2014

State: delaware

Court: Delaware Supreme Court

Date: 2014-04-02T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
JAY M. RINGGOLD, 
 
Defendant Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Plaintiff Below- 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 130, 2014 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware, 
§  in and for New Castle County 
§  Cr. ID 1006015765 
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Submitted: March 21, 2014 
 
 
 
 
   Decided: April 2, 2014 
 
Before HOLLAND, BERGER, and JACOBS, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
This 2nd day of April 2014, it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
On March 12, 2014, the Court received appellant’s notice of 
appeal from an order dated February 10, 2014, which was entered by a 
Superior Court Commissioner.  The Senior Court Clerk issued a notice 
pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 29(b) directing appellant to show cause 
why the appeal should not be dismissed for this Court’s lack of jurisdiction 
to consider an appeal directly from a Superior Court Commissioner’s order.1   
                                                 
1 See Johnson v. State, 884 A.2d 475, 479 (Del. 2005). 
 
 
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(2) 
Appellant filed a response to the notice to show cause on March 
21, 2014.  His response concedes that the Commissioner’s order is not 
directly appealable to this Court.  He requests the Court to stay his appeal 
until a judge of the Superior Court has reviewed the Commissioner’s ruling 
and issued a final order in his case.  
 
(3) 
As appellant acknowledges, his right to review of the 
Commissioner’s order is to a judge of the Superior Court.2  This Court has 
no jurisdiction to consider this appeal in the first instance and, thus, has no 
jurisdiction to stay the appeal.  Appellant may file another notice of appeal 
once a Superior Court judge has entered a final order in his case.  
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Supreme Court 
Rule 29(b), that the within appeal is DISMISSED.   
BY THE COURT: 
 
/s/ Carolyn Berger 
Justice 
                                                 
2Del. Super. Ct. Crim. R. 62(a)(5)(iv) (2014).