Title: Jagger v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 526, 2019
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: December 30, 2019

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
MILES JAGGER, 
 
 
Respondent Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Petitioner Below, 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 526, 2019 
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§  Court Below–Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§  C.A. No. 17I-01117 
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Submitted: December 26, 2019 
 
 
 
 
Decided: 
December 30, 2019 
 
Before SEITZ, Chief Justice; VAUGHN, and TRAYNOR, Justices. 
 
ORDER 
Upon consideration of the notice to show cause and the appellant’s response, 
it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
On December 9, 2019, the appellant, Miles Jagger, filed a notice of 
appeal from a Superior Court Commissioner’s order, dated November 22, 2019, 
which mandated that Jagger receive involuntary outpatient treatment over his 
objection.  The Senior Court Clerk issued a notice directing Jagger to show cause 
why this appeal should not be dismissed for this Court’s lack of jurisdiction to 
consider an appeal directly from a Superior Court Commissioner’s order.  
 
2 
(2) 
Jagger filed a response to the notice to show cause on December 26, 
2019.  In his response, Jagger argues he is entitled to relief from the Superior Court 
Commissioner’s order.  He does not, however, address the jurisdictional issue raised 
in the notice to show cause.  
(3) 
The right of review of a Superior Court Commissioner’s order is to a 
judge of the Superior Court.1  In the absence of intermediate review by a Superior 
Court judge, this Court is without jurisdiction to hear an appeal from any action 
taken by a Commissioner.2 
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, under Supreme Court 
Rule 29(b), that the appeal is DISMISSED. 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Collins J. Seitz, Jr. 
        Chief Justice 
                                                 
1 Del. Super. Ct. Civ. R. 132(a)(4)(ii). 
2 Johnson v. State, 884 A.2d 475, 479 (Del. 2005).