Title: Fatir a/k/a Hobbs v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 132, 2018
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: July 9, 2018

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
AMIR FATIR, A/K/A 
 
 
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STERLING HOBBS, 
 
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No. 132, 2018 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Defendant Below,  
 
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Court Below:  Superior Court   
 
Appellant,  
 
 
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of the State of Delaware   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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v. 
 
 
 
 
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ID. No. 75060892DI (N)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
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Plaintiff Below, 
 
 
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Appellee. 
 
 
 
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Submitted:  April 27, 2018 
 
 
 
 
   Decided:  July 9, 2018 
 
Before VALIHURA, VAUGHN, and SEITZ, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
Upon consideration of the appellant’s opening brief, the State’s motion to 
affirm, and the record below, we conclude that the Superior Court’s order of 
February 23, 2018, denying the appellant’s most recent motion for correction of 
sentence, should be affirmed.  The Superior Court’s application of current Criminal 
Rule 35 to the appellant’s February 2018 motion, rather than the version of the rule 
in effect when the appellant was sentenced in 1976, was entirely correct.*  
                                          
 
* See 11 Del. C. § 5121(c) (providing that amendments to the Rules of Criminal Procedure “shall 
take effect upon such date as the Superior Court shall fix”).  
 
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NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the motion to affirm is 
GRANTED.  The judgment of the Superior Court is AFFIRMED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/  James T. Vaughn, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice