Title: Webb v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 186, 2022
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: July 8, 2022

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
WILLIAM J. WEBB 
 
 
Defendant Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
Appellee. 
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§     No. 186, 2022 
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§     Court Below–Superior Court 
§     of the State of Delaware 
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§     Cr. ID Nos. 1902015015  
§                         1904001943  
§                         1906000296  
 
 
 
Submitted:  June 27, 2022 
Decided:  July 8, 2022 
 
Before VALIHURA, VAUGHN, and TRAYNOR, Justices. 
 
ORDER 
After consideration of the notice to show cause and the parties’ responses, it 
appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
On May 31, 2022, the appellant, William Webb, filed a notice of appeal 
from a May 13, 2022 jury verdict finding him guilty of one count of stalking, one 
count of criminal contempt, and more than forty counts of breach of conditions of 
release.  The Superior Court ordered a presentence investigation, and sentencing has 
not yet been scheduled. 
(2) 
The Senior Court Clerk issued a notice directing Webb to show cause 
why this appeal should not be dismissed based on this Court’s lack of jurisdiction 
2 
 
under Article IV, §11(1)(b) of the Delaware Constitution to hear an interlocutory 
appeal in a criminal matter.  In his response to the notice to show cause, Webb argues 
that this Court may entertain this interlocutory appeal because the Superior Court 
lacked jurisdiction to hear and decide his case.  He is mistaken. 
(3) 
Under the Delaware Constitution, the Court may review only a final 
judgment in a criminal case.1  Because Webb has not yet been sentenced for his 
criminal convictions, this appeal is interlocutory, and the Court has no jurisdiction 
to entertain it.2  After the Superior Court sentences Webb, he may file an appeal.  
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, under Supreme Court 
Rule 29(b), that the appeal is DISMISSED. 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
James T. Vaughn, Jr.    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice 
 
 
1 Del. Const. art. IV, §11(1)(b). 
2 Cirwithian v. State, 2019 WL 7041892, at *1 (Del. Dec. 20, 2019).