Title: Brown v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
MICHAEL A. BROWN, 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 94, 2022 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  Cr. ID No. 0412008486 (N) 
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  Submitted:  April 21, 2022 
 
 
 
 
 
  Decided:     June 1, 2022 
 
Before SEITZ, Chief Justice; VALIHURA and MONTGOMERY-REEVES, 
Justices. 
 
ORDER 
 
 
After careful consideration of the appellant’s opening brief, the appellee’s 
motion to affirm, and the record on appeal, we conclude that the judgment below 
should be affirmed on the basis of the Superior Court’s order summarily dismissing 
the appellant’s fifth motion for postconviction relief and the Superior Court’s order 
denying the appellant’s motion for relief pursuant to the law of the case doctrine.  
The appellant’s new claim on appeal that an unspecified item stolen in one of the 
robberies contained DNA of a third party does not satisfy his burden of pleading 
with particularity new evidence of actual innocence to overcome the procedural bars 
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of Superior Court Criminal Rule 61.1  We warn the appellant that if he continues to 
file appeals from untimely and repetitive motions for postconviction relief, he will 
be enjoined from filing future appeals without leave of the Court.   
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. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         Chief Justice 
 
1 Del. Super. Ct. Crim. R. 61(d)(2)(i).