Title: Callahan v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 613, 2005
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: March 28, 2006

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
LAVOCIA I. CALLAHAN,  
 
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Defendant Below,  
 
§  No. 613, 2005   
Appellant 
 
 
 
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v. 
 
 
 
 
§  Court Below─Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware, 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
  
§  in and for New Castle County 
§  Cr. ID 0411019428 
Plaintiff Below, 
 
 
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Appellee. 
 
 
 
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Submitted: February 24, 2006 
 
 
 
   Decided: March 28, 2006 
 
Before STEELE, Chief Justice, JACOBS, and RIDGELY, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
This 28th day of March 2006, it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
On February 10, 2006, the Clerk issued a notice to show cause 
why this appeal should not be dismissed, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 
29(b), for the appellant's failure to diligently prosecute the appeal by not filing 
his opening brief and appendix. 
(2) 
The February 10th notice to show cause was sent to appellant at 
Sussex Correctional Institution, the address he gave when he filed the notice of 
appeal.  On February 13th, the notice to show cause was returned to the Clerk’s 
office with the notation, “Attempted, Not Known.”  The Clerk’s office 
 
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contacted the Department of Correction and obtained an address for appellant in 
Wilmington, Delaware, to which the notice to show cause was then forwarded.  
On February 17th, a brief delinquency letter that had been mailed to appellant at 
the Wilmington, Delaware address was returned to the Clerk’s office with the 
notation, “Moved … Left No Address … Unable to Forward … Return to 
Sender.”  On February 24, 2006, the Notice to Show Cause was returned to the 
Clerk’s office with the Notation, “Moved, Left No Address.” 
(3) 
The appellant has failed to provide the Court with his current 
address and thus has failed to respond to the notice to show cause within the 
required ten-day period.  Dismissal of this action is deemed to be unopposed. 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, pursuant to Supreme 
Court Rules 3(b) and 29(b), that the within appeal is DISMISSED. 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
/s/Henry duPont Ridgely 
Justice