Title: Cannon v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 250, 2002
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: October 1, 2002

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
KEVIN L.  CANNON, 
 
 
§ 
§ 
No.  250, 2002 
Defendant Below,  
 
§ 
Appellant,  
 
 
§ 
Court Below–Superior Court 
§ 
of the State of Delaware, in 
v. 
 
 
 
 
§ 
and for Sussex County in 
§ 
Cr.  ID No.  0008014714 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
§ 
§ 
Plaintiff Below, 
 
 
§ 
Appellee. 
 
 
 
§ 
 
Submitted: July 22, 2002 
Decided: 
October 1, 2002 
 
Before VEASEY, Chief Justice, WALSH and STEELE, Justices.  
 
O R D E R 
 
This 1st day of October 2002, upon consideration of the State’s motion to 
affirm, the Court finds it manifest on the face of the appellant’s opening brief 
that this matter should be affirmed on the basis of the Superior Court’s well-
reasoned decision of May 1, 2002, that denied the appellant’s motion for 
postconviction relief.  The Superior Court was entirely correct in holding that 
the Court of Common Pleas’  
dismissal of the Trafficking in Cocaine charge at the preliminary hearing did not 
 
 
2 
preclude the State from taking the charge to the grand jury.1  A subsequent 
indictment on criminal charges cures “any defect or irregularity, jurisdictional or 
procedural, in the original complaint, warrant, or preliminary hearing.”2  
Moreover, after he was indicted, the appellant pleaded guilty to Trafficking in 
Cocaine and a violation of probation.  The appellant’s voluntary guilty plea 
waives any defects or errors allegedly occurring before the indictment.3 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the State’s motion to affirm 
is GRANTED.  The judgment of the Superior Court is AFFIRMED. 
BY THE COURT: 
/s/ E. Norman Veasey 
Chief Justice  
                                                 
1See Ellegood v.  State, 2001 WL 770264 (Del.  Supr.); Super.  Ct.  Crim.  R.  5.1(b). 
2Ellegood, 2001 WL 770264 (quoting Evans v.  Redman, 1987 WL 37253 (Del. Supr.)) at 
¶ 5. 
3Evans v. State, 2002 WL 651360 (Del.  Supr.); Coverdale v. State, 2002 WL 86710 (Del. 
 Supr.); Vasquez v.  State, 2001 WL 1398441 (Del.  Supr.); Oliver v.  State, 2001 WL 1751246 
(Del.  Supr.); Downer v. State, 543 A.2d 309, 312-13 (Del.  1988).