Court Opinion

ID: 9905231
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-11-28 22:02:43.259975+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:53.586151
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

STATE OF DELAWARE,                         )
                                           )
       v.                                  )         ID No.       80001076DI
                                           )
JAPHIS LAMPKINS,                           )
                                           )
       Defendant.                          )

                                      ORDER

       1. On this 28th day of November, 2023, upon consideration of the Superior

Court Commissioner’s Report and Recommendations,1 Defendant Japhis

Lampkins’s (“Defendant”) pro se Motion for Appointment of Counsel and Motion

for Postconviction Relief (collectively, the “Motions”)2 made pursuant to Superior

Court Criminal Rule 61, and the record in this case, it appears to the Court that:

       2.     On September 23, 2022, Defendant filed the instant Motion for

Postconviction Relief.3 On February 6, 2023, Defendant filed the instant Motion for

Appointment of Counsel.4 The Motions were referred to the Commissioner pursuant

to 10 Del. C. § 512(b) and Rule 62 for proposed findings of fact and conclusions of

law.     On September 27, 2023, the Commissioner issued a Report and

Recommendation in which he recommended that the Court deny the Motion for

1
  D.I.s 216, 217.
2
  D.I.s 204, 208.
3
  D.I. 204.
4
  D.I. 208.
Appointment of Counsel.5 The next day, on September 28, 2023, he issued a Report

and Recommendation in which he recommended that the Court summarily dismiss

the Motion for Postconviction Relief as procedurally barred.6

       3. A party can file and serve written objections to a Commissioner’s order

“[w]ithin ten days after filing of a Commissioner’s proposed findings of fact and

recommendations.”7 Neither party filed and served an objection on or before

October 7 or 8, 2023, respectively, ten days after the Commissioner filed his Report

and Recommendations.

       4. The Court adopts the Commissioner’s Report and Recommendations in

their entirety for the reasons set forth therein. The Commissioner’s findings are not

clearly erroneous, contrary to law, or an abuse of discretion.8 Accordingly, the

Motions are hereby DENIED.

       IT IS SO ORDERED.

                                                 ______________________________
                                                     Sheldon K. Rennie, Judge

Original to Prothonotary

cc:    Japhis Lampkins (SBI #00110196)

5
  D.I. 216.
6
  D.I. 217. In this Report and Recommendation, the Commissioner also stated that Defendant’s
Motion for an Evidentiary Hearing is moot. Id.
7
  Super. Ct. Crim. R. 62(a)(5)(ii).
8
  Super. Ct. Crim. R. 62(a)(4)(iv).

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