Title: Mendez v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
IVAN MENDEZ, 
 
Defendant Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Plaintiff Below- 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 271, 2013 
§ 
§ 
§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware, 
§  in and for Sussex County 
§  Cr. ID 0012015854 
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§ 
 
 
 
 
 
Submitted: June 17, 2013 
 
 
 
 
   Decided: June 24, 2013 
 
Before HOLLAND, BERGER, and JACOBS, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
This 24th day of June 2013, it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
On May 23, 2013, the Court received appellant’s notice of 
appeal from the Superior Court’s sentencing order dated June 15, 2001.  The 
Clerk issued a notice pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 29(b) directing 
appellant to show cause why the appeal should not be dismissed as untimely 
filed.1  The notice to show cause also indicated that the appellant had 
                                                 
1Del. Supr. Ct. R. 6(a)(ii). 
 
 
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previously filed a timely direct appeal in 2001, which resulted in this Court’s 
decision in 2002 affirming his convictions and sentence.2 
(2) 
Appellant filed a twenty-one page response to the notice to 
show cause on June 17, 2013.  The response does not address either the issue 
of the untimeliness of his present notice of appeal or this Court’s prior 
adjudication of his direct appeal in 2002. 
(3) 
Under the circumstances, this Court has no jurisdiction to 
consider appellant’s present appeal.  Appellant’s direct appeal was fully 
adjudicated by this Court in 2002.  To the extent appellant now seeks to 
reargue the outcome of that appeal, his attempt is untimely.3  Moreover, the 
Superior Court docket reflects no other recent ruling by that court from 
which appellant could now seek to appeal.   
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 
                                                 
2 Mendez v. State, 2002 WL 371862 (Del. Mar. 5, 2002). 
3 Del. Supr. Ct. R. 18 (2013) (a motion for reargument must be filed within 15 days of the 
Court’s ruling).