Title: Robinson v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 344, 2020
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: March 15, 2021

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
GREGORY R. ROBINSON, 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Plaintiff Below, 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 344, 2020 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  Cr. ID No. 1902005192 (K) 
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Submitted:   January 27, 2021 
 
 
 
 
Decided: 
March 15, 2021 
 
Before SEITZ, Chief Justice; VALIHURA and MONTGOMERY-REEVES, 
Justices. 
 
 
 
ORDER 
 
Upon consideration of the parties’ briefs and the record on appeal, it appears 
to the Court that: 
(1) 
The appellant, Gregory R. Robinson, filed this appeal from a Superior 
Court order sentencing him for a violation of probation (“VOP”).  The State of 
Delaware has filed a motion to affirm the judgment below on the ground that it is 
manifest on the face of Robinson’s opening brief that his appeal is without merit.  
We agree and affirm. 
(2) 
On September 16, 2019, Robinson pleaded guilty to strangulation.  The 
Superior Court sentenced Robinson to thirty months of Level V incarceration, with 
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credit for sixty-nine days previously served, suspended after one year for decreasing 
levels of supervision that included eighteen months of Level III GPS.   The Superior 
Court modified Robinson’s sentence to grant him credit for 118 days previously 
served. 
(3) 
On August 11, 2020, an administrative warrant was filed for 
Robinson’s VOP.  The VOP report alleged that Robinson failed to report to his 
probation officer multiple times, used drugs, allowed his GPS tracker to die, and 
repeatedly violated his curfew.   
(4) 
On August 25, 2020, the Superior Court found that Robinson violated 
his probation and sentenced him to eighteen months of Level V incarceration, 
suspended after five months for decreasing levels of supervision that included one 
year of Level III supervision.  The “notes” section of the sentencing order required 
Robinson to keep his GPS in working order.  On October 3, 2020, the Superior Court 
corrected the VOP sentencing order to include Level III GPS and to hold Robinson 
at Level V for Level III GPS.  This appeal followed.   
(5) 
In his opening brief, Robinson primarily challenges the conditions of 
his incarceration, including the risk of COVID-19 infection.  Robinson asks for 
elimination of the GPS provision in his sentence so he may be released from Level 
V incarceration.  The only claim Robinson makes relating to his VOP is that the 
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probation officer charged him with curfew violations based on an address where she 
knew he did not reside.   
(6) 
   Although Robinson disputes the curfew violations, he does not deny 
his admissions of drug use or multiple failures to report to his probation officer.  
Once Robinson committed a VOP, the Superior Court could impose any period of 
incarceration up to and including the balance of the Level V time remaining on 
Robinson’s sentence.1  Robinson’s VOP sentence does not exceed the statutory 
limits or the Level V time previously suspended.  As to Robinson’s request for 
elimination of the GPS requirement from his VOP sentence so he can be released 
from Level V incarceration, this request appears moot as Robinson was released 
from Level V incarceration in January.  Robinson has not stated any basis for 
reversal of his VOP sentence.            
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the State’s motion to affirm is 
GRANTED and the judgment of the Superior Court is AFFIRMED.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Collins J. Seitz, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
        Chief Justice 
 
1 11 Del. C. § 4334(c); Pavulak v. State, 880 A.2d 1044, 1046 (Del. 2005).