Title: Dubose v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
ANDRE T. DUBOSE, 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Plaintiff Below, 
Appellee. 
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§ 
§  No. 159, 2014 
§ 
§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§ of the State of Delaware, 
§  in and for New Castle County  
§ 
§  Cr. ID 1302011427 
§ 
§ 
 
 
 
 
 
Submitted: April 24, 2014 
 
 
 
 
  Decided: May 6, 2014 
 
Before BERGER, JACOBS, and RIDGELY, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
This 6th day of May 2014, it appears to the Court that: 
 
(1) The appellant, Andre Dubose, filed this appeal from a decision of 
the Superior Court, entered March 11, 2014, which continued his criminal 
trial date after plea negotiations failed.  The Senior Court Clerk issued a 
notice to Dubose to show cause why his appeal should not be dismissed based 
on the Court’s lack of jurisdiction to entertain an interlocutory appeal in a 
criminal case. 
(2) Dubose filed a response to the notice to show cause on April 24, 
2014.  Dubose’s response does not address the jurisdictional defect raised in 
 
2
the notice to show cause, but instead argues that he never agreed to a 
continuance of his trial. 
 
(3) Under the Delaware Constitution, this Court may review only a 
final judgment in a criminal case.1  The Superior Court’s continuance of 
Dubose’s criminal trial date is clearly an unappealable interlocutory ruling.2  
This Court therefore does not have jurisdiction to review this appeal.3 
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the within interlocutory 
appeal is DISMISSED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Jack B. Jacobs 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice 
 
                                                 
1 DEL. CONST. art. IV, § 11(1)(b). 
2 See Robinson v. State, 704 A.2d 269, 271 (Del. 1998). 
3 See Gottlieb v. State, 697 A.2d 400, 401 (Del. 1997).