Title: Matter of Dickens
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 40, 2003
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: March 19, 2003

*Supr.  Ct.  R.  43(b)(vi).
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
IN THE MATTER OF THE 
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PETITION OF KEVIN
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No.  40, 2003
L.  DICKENS FOR A
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WRIT OF MANDAMUS.
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Submitted: February 11, 2003
Decided:
March 19, 2003
Before VEASEY, Chief Justice, WALSH and HOLLAND, Justices.
O R D E R
This 19th day of March 2003, upon consideration of the petition for a writ
of mandamus filed by Kevin L.  Dickens, the State’s answer to the petition, the
Clerk’s notice to show cause, and Dickens’ response to the notice, it appears to
the Court that:
(1)
Kevin L.  Dickens’ petition for a writ of mandamus seeks the
issuance of a writ of mandamus to the Court of Common Pleas.  Dickens’
petition suffers from a fatal procedural defect and must be dismissed.  
(2)
A petition requesting that this Court issue a writ of mandamus to
the Court of Common Pleas must “have been first presented to and denied by
the Superior Court.”*  In this case, Dickens did not seek a writ of mandamus
from the Superior Court in the first instance.
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NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that Dickens’ petition for a writ
of mandamus is DISMISSED.
BY THE COURT:
   s/Joseph T. Walsh
Justice