Title: Hester v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
CORNELL HESTER, 
 
Defendant Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE,  
 
                     Plaintiff Below- 
          Appellee. 
§ 
§  No. 174, 2012 
§ 
§ 
§  Court Below─Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware, in and 
§  for New Castle County 
§  Cr. ID Nos. 1002002578  
§                     0912010604 
§ 
§ 
 
 
 
                                        Submitted: April 12, 2012 
 
Decided:  
April 18, 2012 
 
Before BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
O R D E R  
 
 
This 18th day of April 2012, it appears to the Court that: 
 
(1) On April 2, 2012, the appellant, Cornell Hester, filed an appeal 
from an order of the Superior Court Commissioner denying his request for 
transcripts of various trial proceedings in connection with his motion for 
postconviction relief pursuant to Superior Court Criminal Rule 61.   
 
(2) On April 2, 2012, the Clerk of the Court issued a notice pursuant 
to Supreme Court Rule 29(b) directing Hester to show cause why his appeal 
should not be dismissed on the basis of the Court’s lack of jurisdiction to 
consider an appeal directly from a ruling of a Superior Court Commissioner.  
 
2
On April 12, 2012, Hester filed a response to the notice to show cause.  In 
his response, Hester does not address the issue of this Court’s lack of 
jurisdiction to consider his appeal. 
 
(3) This Court does not have jurisdiction to entertain an appeal 
directly from a ruling of a Superior Court Commissioner.1  Indeed, this 
Court lacks jurisdiction to entertain any interlocutory order issued by the 
Superior Court in a criminal matter.2  Because this Court does not have 
jurisdiction to entertain Hester’s appeal, it must be dismissed. 
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Supreme Court 
Rule 29(b), that this appeal is DISMISSED. 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
/s/ Jack B. Jacobs  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
         Justice    
 
                                                 
1 Super. Ct. Crim. R. 62. 
2 Del. Const. art. IV, §11(1) (b).