Title: Flowers v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 163, 2018
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: July 24, 2018

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
DAMONE E. FLOWERS, 
 
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No. 163, 2018 
 
Defendant Below,  
 
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Appellant,  
 
 
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Court Below:  Superior Court  
 
 
 
 
 
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of the State of Delaware 
v. 
 
 
 
 
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Cr. ID No. 9808000280A (N) 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
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Plaintiff Below, 
 
 
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Appellee. 
 
 
 
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Submitted: May 23, 2018 
Decided: 
July 24, 2018 
 
Before VAUGHN, SEITZ, and TRAYNOR, Justices. 
 
ORDER 
 
This appeal is from the Superior Court’s order of March 6, 2018, which 
adopted a Commissioner’s report and recommendation and denied Flowers’ 
successive motion for postconviction relief as procedurally barred.1  The State has 
moved to affirm the Superior Court’s judgment on the ground that it is manifest on 
the face of Flowers’ opening that the appeal is without merit.  We agree and affirm.  
Flowers offered no new evidence creating a strong inference of actual innocence or 
                                          
 
1 State v. Flowers, 2018 WL 11690644 (Del. Super. Ct. Mar. 6, 2018).  The Superior Court 
characterized the postconviction motion as Flowers’ fourth, but the record reflects that it was his 
third.  Flowers filed the motion in 2017 after this Court’s 2016 reversal of the Superior Court 
decision granting his second postconviction motion.  See State v. Flowers, 150 A.3d 276, 277 (Del. 
2016) (concluding that “Flowers’ second Motion for Postconviction Relief was untimely”).  
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any new rule of constitutional law that would invalidate his convictions, and he did 
not raise a jurisdictional claim.  Flowers’ postconviction motion was properly denied 
as procedurally barred. 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the motion to affirm is 
GRANTED.  The judgment of the Superior Court is AFFIRMED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
/s/ Collins J. Seitz, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice