Title: Montgomery v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
VERNON MONTGOMERY, 
 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 353, 2021 
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§  Court Below–Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  Cr. ID No.   1710001043A/B (N)                                     
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Submitted: 
May 13, 2022 
 
 
 
 
Decided: 
July 25, 2022 
 
Before SEITZ, Chief Justice; VALIHURA and VAUGHN, Justices. 
 
ORDER 
 
After careful consideration of the parties’ briefs and the record on appeal, we 
conclude that the judgment below should be affirmed on the basis of and for the reasons 
assigned by the Superior Court in its October 1, 2021 order denying the appellant’s first 
motion for postconviction relief.1  
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the judgment of the Superior Court is 
AFFIRMED.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Karen L. Valihura 
Justice  
 
 
1 State v. Montgomery, 2021 WL 4497405 (Del. Super. Ct. Oct. 1, 2021).  The appellant also filed 
two motions in connection with his appeal: a motion to strike the State’s waiver argument and a 
motion to take judicial notice of one of his arresting officer’s 2021 arrest for assault and related 
charges.  Because the appellant substantively raised in his reply brief the same argument he makes 
in his motion to strike, that motion is denied as MOOT.  And, despite the appellant’s claims, the 
officer’s recent arrest does not call into question her veracity in general or as it relates to her 
testimony in the proceedings leading to the appellant’s convictions.  The motion to take judicial 
notice is therefore DENIED.