Title: Ingram v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
NORMAN INGRAM,  
 
Defendant Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Plaintiff Below- 
Appellee. 
§ 
§  No. 465, 2005 
§ 
§ 
§  Court Below─Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
§  in and for Kent County 
§  Cr.A. Nos. IK03-05-0865 thru 
§                                    0867; 
§                     IK03-05-0869 thru 
§                                    0871 
 
 
 
 
 
Submitted: October 7, 2005 
 
 
 
 
   Decided: November 8, 2005 
 
Before STEELE, Chief Justice, BERGER and RIDGELY, Justices 
 
 
 
 
 
 
O R D E R  
 
 
This 8th day of November 2005, it appears to the Court that: 
 
(1) 
On September 30, 2005, the appellant, Norman Ingram, filed a 
notice of appeal from the September 2, 2005 report and recommendations of 
a Superior Court commissioner.  The commissioner recommended that the 
Superior Court deny Ingram’s motion for postconviction relief pursuant to 
Superior Court Criminal Rule 61. 
 
(2) 
On September 30, 2005, the Clerk of this Court issued a notice 
pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 29(b) directing Ingram to show cause why 
his appeal should not be dismissed based on this Court’s lack of jurisdiction 
to decide a criminal interlocutory appeal.  On October 7, 2005, Ingram filed 
 
2
a response to the notice to show cause in which he asserted that his notice of 
appeal was filed in a timely manner.  He did not address this Court’s lack of 
jurisdiction to decide a criminal interlocutory appeal.   
 
(3) 
Under the Delaware Constitution, this Court may review only a 
final judgment in a criminal case.1  Because the commissioner’s report and 
recommendation is not a final judgment,2 this Court does not have 
jurisdiction to decide it. 
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to Supreme 
Court Rule 29(b), this appeal is DISMISSED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Myron T. Steele 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chief Justice 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                 
1 Del. Const. art. IV, § 11(1) (b). 
2 Super. Ct. Crim. R. 62(a) (5).