Title: Morton v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
JEFFREY MORTON, 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 38, 2022 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  Cr. ID No. 1910007361 (N) 
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Submitted:  February 9, 2022 
 
 
 
 
Decided:     March 28, 2022 
 
Before VAUGHN, TRAYNOR, and MONTGOMERY-REEVES, Justices. 
 
ORDER 
 
After careful consideration of the appellant’s opening brief, the appellee’s 
motion to affirm and the record below, we conclude that the Superior Court order 
denying the second motion for sentence reduction filed by the appellant, Jeffrey 
Morton, should be affirmed.  Superior Court Criminal “Rule 35(b) does not set forth 
any exception to the repetitive motion bar.”1   
 
 
 
1 State v. Culp, 152 A.3d 141, 144 (Del. Dec. 8, 2016).  See also Martinez v. Metzger, 2018 WL 
3768993, at *3 (Del. Aug. 7, 2018) (affirming the Superior Court’s denial of a motion for sentence 
reduction as repetitive).  
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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/ Gary F. Traynor 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice