Title: Matter of Ricketts

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

IN THE MATTER OF THE §
PETITION OF DONALD § No. 48, 2008
RICKETTS FOR A WRIT OF 5
MANDAMUS §

Submitted: January 29, 2008
Decided: March 11, 2008

Before HOLLAND, BERGER, and JACOBS, Justices.
ORDER
This 11" day of March 2008, it appears that the petitioner, Donald
Ricketts, seeks to invoke the original jurisdiction of this Court to issue a writ
of mandamus to compel the Board of Parole to correct a sentence calculation

error. This Court's original jurisdiction to issue a writ of mandamus is

 

limited to cases in which the respondent is a trial court or judge thereof.”
‘The Court has no jurisdiction to issue a writ to the Board of Parole.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that Ricketts’ petition for a
writ of mandamus is DISMISSED.
BY THE COURT:

(s/ Carolyn Berger
Justice

* In re Hitchens, 600 A.24 37, 38 (Del. 1991)