Title: Livingston v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
BRIAN LIVINGSTON, 
 
Plaintiff Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 454, 2022 
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§  Court Below:  Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  Cr. ID No. 1601011422  (N)  
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Submitted:   February 27, 2023 
 
 
 
 
Decided: 
April 3, 2023 
 
Before SEITZ, Chief Justice; VALIHURA and TRAYNOR, Justices. 
 
 
 
ORDER 
 
After consideration of the appellant’s opening brief, the appellee’s motion to 
affirm and the record on appeal, we conclude that the judgment below should be 
affirmed on the basis of the Superior Court’s order, dated November 21, 2022, 
denying the appellant’s motion for sentence reduction under Superior Court 
Criminal Rule 35(b), motion for postconviction relief under Rule 61, and motion for 
appointment of postconviction counsel.  The Superior Court did not err in 
concluding that the third motion for sentence reduction was time-barred and 
repetitive.  Nor did the Superior Court err in holding that the motion for 
postconviction relief was time-barred where the appellant failed to plead any of the 
exceptions to the Rule 61 procedural bars. 
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NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the Motion to Affirm is 
GRANTED and the judgment of the Superior Court is AFFIRMED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Collins J. Seitz, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
       Chief Justice