Title: Lawson v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 146, 2015
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: April 23, 2015

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
SHAWNA LAWSON, 
 
Petitioner Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Respondent Below, 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 146, 2015 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware, 
§  in and for New Castle County 
§  Cr. ID No. N13M-12-047 
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Submitted: April 6, 2015 
 
 
 
 
   Decided: April 23, 2015 
 
Before STRINE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, and VALIHURA, Justices. 
 
 
O R D E R 
 
This 23rd day of April 2015, it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
On March 24, 2015, the Court received the appellant’s notice of 
appeal from an order dated February 24, 2015, which was entered by a 
Superior Court Commissioner.  The Senior Court Clerk issued a notice 
directing the appellant 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) 
In her response to the notice to show cause, the appellant does 
not address this Court’s lack of jurisdiction.  The right of review of a 
 
 
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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 has no jurisdiction 
to hear an appeal directly from a Superior Court Commissioner’s order.2  
Therefore, this appeal must be dismissed. 
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, under Supreme Court Rule 
29(b), that this appeal is DISMISSED.   
BY THE COURT: 
 
/s/ Randy J. Holland 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice 
                                                 
1 Super. Ct. Civ. R. 132. 
2 See Johnson v. State, 884 A.2d 475, 479 (Del. 2005).