Title: Allent v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 663, 2002
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: December 31, 2002

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
VINCENT ALLEN, 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellee.
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No. 663, 2002 
 
Court Below: Superior Court  
of the State of Delaware  
in and for New Castle County 
 
Cr. ID No. 83005216DI 
 
 
 
 
 
Submitted: December 12, 2002 
 
 
 
 
Decided: 
December  31, 2002 
 
Before VEASEY, Chief Justice, WALSH and STEELE, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
This 31st day of December 2002, it appears to the Court that: 
 
1. 
On December 3, 2002, the appellant, Vincent Allen, filed a pro se notice of 
appeal from a decision of the Superior Court dated November 4, 2002.  In its decision, 
the Superior Court denied Allen’s Motion for Transcripts.  
 
2. 
On December 3, 2002, the Clerk of this Court issued a notice, pursuant to 
Supreme Court 29(b), directing Allen to show cause why this appeal should not be 
dismissed based on this Court's lack of jurisdiction to entertain a criminal 
interlocutory appeal.  On December 12, 2002, Allen filed a response to the notice to 
show cause.  In that response, Allen discusses what he perceives to be the merits of his 
 
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appeal.  He does not address the issue of this Court’s lack of jurisdiction to entertain a 
criminal interlocutory appeal.   
3. 
The Superior Court’s denial of a motion for transcripts is clearly an 
interlocutory ruling in this criminal matter.1   
4. 
Under the Delaware Constitution, this Court may review only a final 
judgment in a criminal case.2  As a result, this Court does not have jurisdiction to 
review the Superior Court’s interlocutory ruling in this case.3    
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 29(b), 
that this appeal is DISMISSED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ E. Norman Veasey 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chief Justice 
 
                                                           
1See Robinson v. State, 704 A.2d 269, 271 (Del. 1998). 
 
2DEL. CONST. ART. IV, § 11(1)(b).   
 
3See Gottlieb v. State, 697 A.2d 400 (Del. 1997); Rash v. State, 318 A.2d 603 (Del. 1974).