Title: Downing v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 358, 2005
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: September 8, 2005

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
WAYNE D. DOWNING, 
 
Defendant Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Plaintiff Below- 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 358, 2005 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware, 
§  in and for Kent County 
§  Cr. ID 0309016014  
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Submitted: August 17, 2005 
 
 
 
 
Decided: 
September 8, 2005 
 
Before BERGER, JACOBS, and RIDGELY, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
This 8th day of September 2005, it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
On August 5, 2005, the Court received the defendant=s notice of 
appeal from a Superior Court order dated July 15, 2005 denying the defendant’s 
motion to withdraw his guilty plea.  The defendant has not yet been sentenced on 
the criminal charges to which he pled guilty.  
(2) 
Until the defendant is sentenced, the Superior Court’s denial of his 
motion to withdraw his guilty plea is clearly an interlocutory ruling in this criminal 
matter.1  Under the Delaware Constitution, this Court may only review a final 
                                                 
1 See Robinson v. State, 704 A.2d 269, 271 (Del. 1998); DEL. SUPR. CT. R. 6(a)(ii). 
 
 
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judgment in a criminal matter.2  Accordingly, this Court is without jurisdiction to 
review this criminal interlocutory appeal. 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 
29(b), that the within appeal is DISMISSED. 
BY THE COURT: 
 
Jack B. Jacobs 
      Justice 
 
                                                 
2 DEL. CONST. art. IV, § 11(1)(b).