Title: Ingram v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 262, 2015
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: July 18, 2016

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
NORMAN INGRAM, 
 
 
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No. 262, 2015 
 
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. 0305008270 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
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Plaintiff Below, 
 
 
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Appellee. 
 
 
 
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Submitted: May 20, 2016 
Decided: 
July 18, 2016 
 
Before STRINE, Chief Justice; HOLLAND, and SEITZ, Justices. 
 
    ORDER 
 
 
This 18th day of July 2016, upon consideration of the appellant’s opening 
brief and the appellee’s motion to affirm, it appears to the Court that: 
 
(1) 
The appellant, Norman Ingram, filed this appeal from the Superior 
Court’s denial of his motion for resentencing.  The State of Delaware has moved to 
affirm the Superior Court’s judgment on the ground that it is manifest on the face 
of the opening brief that the appeal is without merit.  We agree and affirm. 
 
(2) 
On December 2, 2003, Ingram was convicted of and sentenced for 
five drug offenses, including Trafficking in Cocaine and Possession with Intent to 
Deliver Cocaine (“PWITD”).  Ingram’s sentence included two consecutive terms 
of unsuspended Level V incarceration—a three-year term for Trafficking in 
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Cocaine and a fifteen-year term for PWITD.  On direct appeal, this Court affirmed 
Ingram’s convictions and sentence.1 
 
(3) 
In May 2015, Ingram filed a “motion for resentencing under House 
Bill 312” asking the Superior Court to resentence him to concurrent terms of 
incarceration under a 2014 amendment of 11 Del. C. § 3901(d).2  The Superior 
Court denied the motion, and this appeal followed. 
 
(4) 
The amendment of section 3901(d), which gives judges the discretion 
to impose concurrent terms of imprisonment for certain crimes, does not apply 
retroactively to sentences imposed before July 9, 2014, the effective date of the 
amendment.3  Ingram was sentenced in 2003.  The Superior Court did not err when 
denying Ingram’s motion for resentencing. 
 
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 
                                          
 
1 Ingram v. State, 2004 WL 2154325 (Del. Sept. 17, 2004). 
2 See 11 Del. C. § 3901 (governing term of imprisonment) (Supp. 2016). 
3 Fountain v. State, __ A.3d __, 2016 WL 2927750, at *4-5 (Del. May 16, 2016).