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lN THE SUPREl\/[E COURT OF TIHE STATE OF DELAWARE

DEVEARL BACON, §
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Defendant Below, § No. 269, 2016
Appellant, §
§ Court BeloW_Superior Court
V. § of the State of Delaware
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STATE OF DELAWARE, § Cr. ID No. 006017660
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Plaintiff BeloW, §
Appellee. §

Submitted: July 12, 2016
Decided: September 12, 2016

Before STR]NE, Chief Justice; HOLLAND, and VALHIURA, Justices.

ORDER

This 12th day of September 2016, after careful consideration of the opening
brief, the motion to affirm, and the record beloW, We find it manifest that the Superior
Court order dated December 30, 2015, which adopted the Commissioner’s order
dated February 13, 2015 and denied the appellant’s second motion for
postconviction relief, and the Superior Court order dated April 28, 2016, Which

denied the appellant’s motion for reargument, should be affirmed To the extent the

appellant challenges his convictions, his claims are untimely1 and repetitive2 and he
has failed to show that consideration of his claims is warranted in the interest of
justice3 or plead a colorable claim of a miscarriage of justice.4 To the extent the
appellant challenges his sentences, he has not shown that his sentences are illegal.5
We note that this is the appellant’s second postconviction motion. We will
not continue to invest scare judicial resources to address untimely and claims. We

encourage the appellant to be mindful of Superior Court Criminal Rule 61(j).6

 

1 Del. Super. Ct. Crim. R. 61(i)(1) (barring postconviction motion filed more than three years after
the judgment of conviction is fmal) (amended in 2005 to reduce filing period to one year).
Although Rule 61 Was amended on June 4, 2014, we apply the version of Rule 61 in effect at the
time Bacon filed his second motion for postconviction relief (September 2011). Bradley v. State,
135 A.3d 748, 757 n.24 (Del. Mar. 3, 2016).

2 Del. Super. Ct. Crim. R. 61(i)(2) (barring postconviction claims not asserted in previous
postconviction proceedings).

3 Id. (providing claim not raised in previous postconviction proceeding can be considered in
interest of justice).

4 Del. Super. Ct. Crim. R. 61(i)(5) (providing that bars to relief in Rule 61(i)(l) through (i)(3) do
not apply “to a claim that the court lacked jurisdiction or to a colorable claim that there was a
miscarriage of justice because of a constitutional violation that undermined the fundamental
legality, reliability, integrity or fairness of the proceedings leading to the judgment of conviction”).
5 See, e.g., Wynn v. State, 2014 WL 4670861, at *1 (Del. Sept. 19, 2014) (“It is well-established
law that a defendant may be convicted of a firearm or weapon offense used during the commission
of a felony and also be separately convicted and punished for the underlying felony.”); Weber v.
State, 38 A.3d 271, 278 (Del. 2012) (holding argument that convictions and sentencing for both
Attempted Caijacking and Attempted Robbery in the First Degree violated jeopardy was without
merit); Lewis v. State, 2005 WL 2414293, at *3 (Del. Sept. 20, 2005) (holding consecutive
sentences for Carj acking in the Second Degree and Felony Theft were permissible).

6 Super. Ct. Crim. R. 61(j) (“If a motion is denied, the state may move for an order requiring the
movant to reimburse the state for costs and expenses paid for the movant from public funds.”).

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NOW, TI-]EREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the motion to affirm is
GRANTED and the judgment of the Superior Court is AFFIRMED.

BY THE COURT:

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