Title: Campbell v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
JAMARR CAMPBELL,  
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE,  
 
Plaintiff Below, 
Appellee. 
§ 
§  No. 404, 2013 
§ 
§ 
§  Court Below─Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware, 
§  in and for Sussex County 
§  Cr. ID No. 1301016197 
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§ 
§ 
 
Submitted: August 8, 2013 
Decided: 
August 23, 2013 
 
Before BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
This 23rd day of August 2013, it appears to the Court that: 
 
(1) On July 29, 2013, the Court received the appellant’s notice of 
appeal from the Superior Court’s denial of a suppression hearing in his 
criminal case.  On that same day, the Clerk issued a notice pursuant to 
Supreme Court Rule 29(b) directing the appellant to show cause why his 
appeal should not be dismissed based on the Court’s lack of jurisdiction to 
entertain a criminal interlocutory appeal.1 
                                                 
1 DEL. CONST. art. IV, §11(1)(b); State v. Cooley, 430 A.2d 789, 791 n.2 (Del. 1981). 
 
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(2) The appellant filed a response to the notice to show cause on 
August 8, 2013.  The appellant states that the Court should consider the 
appeal because there was a constitutional violation. 
 
(3) This Court has no jurisdiction to entertain a criminal 
interlocutory appeal,2 such as the instant appeal from the Superior Court’s 
denial of a suppression hearing in a criminal case.  Therefore, the instant 
appeal must be dismissed. 
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Supreme Court 
Rule 29(b), that this appeal is DISMISSED.  The appellant’s motion for the 
appointment of counsel, filed on July 29, 2013, is also denied as moot. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Jack B. Jacobs 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
       Justice 
 
                                                 
2 Gottlieb v. State, 697 A.2d 400, 401 (Del. 1997).