Title: Webb v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
WILLIAM J. WEBB, JR., 
 
Petitioner Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
WARDEN ROBERT MAY, 
 
Respondent Below, 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 490, 2019 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware  
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§  C.A. No. N19M-10-135 
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Submitted: December 16, 2019 
 
 
 
 
Decided: 
December 31, 2019 
 
ORDER 
 
On November 21, 2019, the appellant filed a notice of appeal from a Superior 
Court order, dated October 17, 2019 and docketed on October 18, 2019, denying his 
petition for a writ of habeas corpus.  A timely notice of appeal was due by November 
18, 2019.1  The Senior Court Clerk issued, by certified mail, a notice directing the 
appellant to show cause why this appeal should not be dismissed as untimely filed.  
The appellant received the notice to show cause as evidenced by the undated return 
receipt that was filed with the Court on December 4, 2019.  The appellant has not 
                                                 
1 Supr. Ct. R. 6(a)(i) (requiring notice of appeal to be filed within thirty days after entry of the 
judgment upon the docket); Supr. Ct. R. 11(a) (providing that if the last day of the time period 
prescribed by the Rules falls on the weekend or a holiday then the time period runs until the end 
of the next day the Clerk's office is open). 
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responded to the notice to show cause.  Dismissal of the appeal is therefore deemed 
to be unopposed. 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, under Supreme Court 
Rules 3(b)(2) and 29(b), that this appeal is DISMISSED. 
BY THE COURT: 
/s/ Collins J. Seitz, Jr. 
        Chief Justice