Title: Paskins v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
DANIEL PASKINS, 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellee.
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No. 349, 2002 
 
Court Below: Superior Court  
of the State of Delaware  
in and for Sussex County 
 
Cr. ID No. 9312006327 
 
 
 
 
 
Submitted: July 10, 2002 
 
 
 
 
Decided: 
July 23, 2002 
 
Before VEASEY, Chief Justice, WALSH and STEELE, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
This 23rd day of July 2002, it appears to the Court that: 
 
1. 
On June 20, 2002, the appellant, Daniel Paskins, filed a pro se notice of 
appeal from a decision of the Superior Court dated June 12, 2002.  In its decision, the 
Superior Court denied Paskins’ motion for recusal filed on June 2, 2002.   On July 2, 
2002, the Assistant Clerk of this Court issued a notice, pursuant to Supreme Court 
29(b), directing Paskins to show cause why this appeal should not be dismissed based 
on this Court's lack of jurisdiction to entertain a criminal interlocutory appeal.   
 
2. 
On July 10, 2002, Paskins filed a response to the notice to show cause.  
In that response, Paskins argues the merits of his motion for recusal filed in Superior 
 
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Court.  He does not address the issue of this Court’s lack of jurisdiction to entertain a 
criminal interlocutory appeal.   
 
3. 
Under the Delaware Constitution, this Court may review only a final 
judgment in a criminal case.1  The Superior Court’s denial of a motion for recusal is 
clearly an interlocutory ruling in this criminal matter.2  As a result, this Court does not 
have jurisdiction to review the Superior Court’s interlocutory ruling in this case.3   
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 
29(b), that this appeal is DISMISSED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ E. Norman Veasey 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chief Justice 
 
                                                           
1DEL. CONST. ART. IV, § 11(1)(b).   
2See Robinson v. State, 704 A.2d 269, 271 (Del. 1998). 
3See Gottlieb v. State, 697 A.2d 400 (Del. 1997); Rash v. State, 318 A.2d 603 (Del. 1974).