IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 

IDRIS YOUNG,

Defendant Below, 

Appellant,

v.

STATE OF DELAWARE,

Plaintiff Below, 

Appellee.

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§ No. 502, 2016

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§ Court Below—Superior Court

§ of the State of Delaware

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§ Cr. ID No. 0511017930A

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 Submitted: October 24, 2016 

 Decided: December 5, 2016 

Before STRINE, Chief Justice; VAUGHN, and SEITZ, Justices. 

ORDER

 This 5th day of December 2016, upon consideration of the appellant’s 

opening brief, the State’s motion to affirm, and the record below, it appears to the 

Court that: 

(1) The appellant, Idris Young, filed this appeal from a Superior Court 

order, dated September 8, 2016 and docketed on September 13, 2016, denying his 

motion for reargument. Young sought reargument of a Superior Court order, dated 

and docketed on August 12, 2016, accepting the recommendation of a Superior 

Court commissioner and denying Young’s second motion for postconviction relief 

under Superior Court Criminal Rule 61. 
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(2) In his opening brief on appeal, Young argues that the Superior Court 

erred in denying his motion for reargument because he had abandoned his Rule 61 

claims in favor of a claim of illegal sentence under Rule 35(a). The State of 

Delaware has filed a motion to affirm the judgment below on the ground that it is 

manifest on the face of Young’s opening brief that his appeal without merit. We 

agree and affirm. 

(3) A motion for reargument must be filed within five days of the filing of 

the order that the movant seeks to reargue.1

 The Superior Court received Young’s 

motion for reargument on August 24, 2016, more than five days (excluding 

intermediate Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays)

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 after the Superior Court’s 

August 12, 2016 order. Young’s motion for reargument was therefore untimely. 

We affirm the Superior Court’s denial of the motion for reargument, albeit on 

grounds different from those relied upon by the Superior Court.3 

(4) As to Young’s arguments regarding the merits of his motion for 

postconviction relief, or correction of illegal sentence as he now characterizes the 

motion, this Court is without jurisdiction to consider those claims. Young’s 

 

1

 Super. Ct. Civ. R. 59(e) (“A motion for reargument shall be served and filed within 5 days after 

the filing of the Court’s opinion or decision.”); Super. Ct. Crim. R. 57(d) (“In all cases not 

provided for by rule or administrative order, the court shall regulate its practice in accordance 

with the applicable Superior Court civil rule or in any lawful manner not inconsistent with these 

rules or the rules of the Supreme Court.”). 

2

 Super. Ct. Civ. R. 6(a) (excluding intermediate Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays in 

computation of time period less than eleven days); Del. Super. Ct. Crim. R. 45(a) (same). 

3 Unitrin, Inc. v. American Gen. Corp., 651 A.2d 1361, 1390 (Del. 1995) (noting that this Court 

may affirm a trial court’s judgment for reasons different than those articulated by the trial court). 
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untimely motion for reargument did not toll the time to appeal the denial of his 

motion for postconviction relief or correction of illegal sentence.4 A timely notice 

of appeal from the Superior Court’s order denying the motion for postconviction 

relief or correction of illegal sentence should have been filed by September 12, 

2016.5 Young did not file the notice of appeal until October 12, 2016.6 

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.

 Justice 

 

4 McDaniel v. DaimlerChrysler Corp., 860 A.2d 321, 323 (Del. 2004). 

5

 Del. Supr. Ct. R. 6(a)(iv). 

6

 Even if Young had filed a timely appeal of the August 12, 2016 order, his attacks on his 

sentence are without merit. Young challenged the manner in which his sentence was imposed 

and failed to show extraordinary circumstances justifying review of his untimely motion for 

sentence correction. Super. Ct. Crim. R. 35(a) (providing court may correct a sentence imposed 

in an illegal manner within time provided for a reduction of section); Super. Ct. Crim. R. 35(b) 

(providing that court will not consider motion for reduction of sentence filed more than ninety 

days after imposition of sentence unless movant shows extraordinary circumstances or files 

motion under 11 Del. C. § 4217); Fennell v. State, 2005 WL 1950215, at *1 (Del. July 19, 2005) 

(holding that motion for correction of sentence objecting to enhanced sentence imposed in 

absence of proof of predicate offense sought correction of sentence imposed in an illegal 

manner).