Title: Cooper v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
NICOLE COOPER, 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Plaintiff Below, 
Appellee. 
§ 
§ 
§  No. 315, 2013 
§ 
§  Court Below—Court of Common Pleas 
§  of the State of Delaware, 
§  in and for New Castle County 
§  Cr. ID Nos. 1107020185 and 
§  1009020973  
§ 
§ 
 
Submitted:  July 9, 2013 
Decided:  July 12, 2013 
 
Before BERGER, JACOBS, and RIDGELY, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
This 12th day of July 2013, it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
On June 17, 2013, the Court received appellant’s notice of 
appeal from a violation of probation sentence entered by the Court of 
Common Pleas on April 5, 2013.  The Senior Court Clerk issued a notice 
pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 29(b) directing appellant to show cause 
why the appeal should not be dismissed for this Court’s lack of jurisdiction 
to consider an appeal directly from the Court of Common Pleas.1   
                                                 
1Del. Const. art. IV, § 11(1)(b). 
 
 
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(2) 
Appellant filed a response to the notice to show cause on July 9, 
2013.  Her response argues the relative merits of her appeal and does not 
address the interlocutory nature of the appeal.  
 
(3) 
This Court has no jurisdiction to consider a criminal appeal 
directly from the Court of Common Pleas.2  Appellant’s notice of appeal 
should have been filed with the Superior Court within 15 days of her 
sentencing.3 
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Supreme Court 
Rule 29(b), that the within appeal is DISMISSED.   
BY THE COURT: 
/s/ Jack B. Jacobs 
       Justice 
                                                 
2Del. Const. art. IV, § 11(1)(b). 
3Del. Const. art. IV, § 28; Del. Super. Crim. R. 39(a) (2013).