Title: Neal v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 383, 2013
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: November 8, 2013

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
RASHAD NEAL, 
 
Defendant Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Plaintiff Below- 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 383, 2013 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware, 
§  in and for New Castle County 
§  Cr. ID 0912000501 
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Submitted:  October 14, 2013 
 
 
 
 
   Decided: November 8, 2013 
 
Before HOLLAND, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices.  
 
 
 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
This 8th day of November 2013, upon consideration of the opening 
brief, the State’s motion to affirm, and the record on appeal, it appears to the 
Court that: 
 
(1) 
The defendant-appellant, Rashad Neal, filed this appeal from 
the Superior Court’s sentence for his fourth violation of probation (VOP).  
The State of Delaware has filed a motion to affirm the judgment below on 
the ground that it is manifest on the face of Neal’s opening brief that his 
appeal is without merit.  We agree and affirm. 
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(2) 
Neal pled guilty in March 2010 to one count of Possession of a 
Deadly Weapon by a Person Prohibited.  The Superior Court immediately 
sentenced him to eight years at Level V incarceration but suspended the 
entire sentence for one year at Level III probation.  On September 1, 2010, 
the Superior Court found Neal guilty of his first VOP and reimposed the 
original eight year sentence, to be suspended entirely for eight years at Level 
IV home confinement, to be suspended upon Neal’s obtaining his high 
school diploma for one year at Level III probation.  On October 24, 2012, 
the Superior Court found Neal guilty of his second VOP and continued his 
probation as previously ordered.  On April 17, 2013, the Superior Court 
found Neal guilty of his third VOP.  The Superior Court sentenced him, 
effective December 15, 2012, to six years at Level V incarceration to be 
suspended entirely for six years at Level IV (DOC discretion), to be 
suspended after three months for eighteen months at Level III probation.  As 
special conditions of his probation, Neal was ordered, among other things, 
not to drive in the City of Wilmington and not to have contact with Ramier 
Broomer. 
 
(3) 
In July 2013, Neal was charged with his fourth VOP after he 
was found in a car with Broomer.  The Superior Court again found Neal in 
violation of his probation and sentenced him, effective June 27, 2013, to five 
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years and eight months at Level V incarceration, to be suspended after six 
months for five years and two months at Level IV work release, to be 
suspended after six months for eighteen months at Level III probation.  Neal 
appeals that order. 
 
(4) 
In his opening brief on appeal, Neal contends that he was not 
guilty of the original weapon offense because the gun was not his but his 
father’s.  Neal also challenges the special condition imposed by the Superior 
Court in his third VOP sentence ordering him not to have contact with his 
childhood friend Broomer. 
 
(5) 
Neither of these contentions is properly before the Court for 
consideration in this appeal.  Neal did not file an appeal following his guilty 
plea and sentence in March 2010.  Neal also did not appeal following the 
Superior Court’s imposition in April 2013 of the special condition that Neal 
not have contact with Broomer.  Having failed to timely pursue these claims, 
Neal has waived his right to seek review now.1  His brief offers no grounds 
for reversing the Superior Court’s most recent VOP adjudication and 
sentence.  Accordingly, that judgment must be affirmed. 
                                                 
1 Doran v. State, 1991 WL 78439 (Del. Apr. 24, 1991). 
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NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the judgment of the 
Superior Court is AFFIRMED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Randy J. Holland 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice