Title: Trawick v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 350, 2019
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: October 16, 2019

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
CHARLES TRAWICK, 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Plaintiff Below, 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 350, 2019 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§ Cr. ID No. 0201012191 (N) 
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Submitted: August 28, 2019 
Decided: 
October 16, 2019 
 
Before VAUGHN, SEITZ, and TRAYNOR, Justices. 
 
 
ORDER 
 
After careful consideration of the appellant’s opening brief, the State’s motion 
to affirm, and the record on appeal, we conclude that the judgment below should be 
affirmed on the basis of and for the reasons assigned by the Superior Court’s orders 
dated July 1, 2019 and July 23, 2019, which summarily dismissed the appellant’s 
fourth motion for postconviction relief and denied his motion for reconsideration, 
respectively.  The appellant has not overcome the procedural bars that are set forth 
in Rule 61 by pleading with particularity any new evidence of actual innocence or 
any new, retroactive rule of constitutional law that applies to his case and renders 
 
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his conviction invalid.1  Contrary to the appellant’s assertion in the motion for 
reconsideration that he filed in the Superior Court, Rule 61 as adopted effective April 
6, 2017 applies to his motion, which was filed in June 2019.2 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the motion to affirm is 
GRANTED and the judgment of the Superior Court is AFFIRMED.   
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
/s/ Collins J. Seitz, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice 
                                                 
1 SUPER. CT. CRIM. R. 61(d)(2).  See also SUPER. CT. CRIM. R. 61(i)(1)-(4). 
2 See Durham v. State, 2017 WL 5450746 (Del. Nov. 13, 2017).