Title: Merritt v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
IDREES MERRITT, 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 469, 2022 
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§  Court Below: Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  Cr. I.D. No. 1608014407 (N) 
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Submitted: January 23, 2023 
Decided: 
January 31, 2023 
 
 
ORDER 
 
On December 15, 2022, the appellant, Idrees Merritt, filed this appeal from a 
Superior Court order dated and docketed on November 15, 2022, that denied his 
motion for correction of an illegal sentence.  A notice of appeal must be timely filed 
to invoke the Court’s appellate jurisdiction.1  Under Supreme Court Rules 6 and 11, 
a timely notice of appeal should have been filed on or before December 14, 2022.  
On January 5, 2023, the Chief Deputy Clerk issued a notice directing Merritt to show 
cause why this appeal should not be dismissed as untimely filed.2  On January 12, 
2023, the Court received the certified mail receipt indicating that the notice to show 
cause had been delivered on January 10, 2023.  A timely response to the notice to 
 
1 Carr v. State, 554 A.2d 778, 779 (Del. 1989). 
2 The Senior Court Clerk had initially issued the notice on December 15, 2022.  The postal service 
returned the first notice as undeliverable. 
 
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show cause was due on or before January 20, 2023.  The appellant having failed to 
respond to the notice to show cause within the required ten-day period, dismissal of 
this action is deemed to be unopposed. 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, under Supreme Court Rules 3(b)(2) 
and 29(b), that the appeal is DISMISSED.  
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Karen L. Valihura 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice