Lawson v. State ( 2015 )

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
SHAWNA LAWSON, §
§ No. 146, 2015
Petitioner Below, §
Appellant, §
§ Court Below—Superior Court
v. § of the State of Delaware,
§ in and for New Castle County
STATE OF DELAWARE, § Cr. ID No. N13M-12-047
§
Respondent Below, §
Appellee. §
Submitted: April 6, 2015
Decided: April 23, 2015
Before STRINE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, and VALIHURA, Justices.
ORDER
This 23rd day of April 2015, it appears to the Court that:
(1) On March 24, 2015, the Court received the appellant’s notice of
appeal from an order dated February 24, 2015, which was entered by a
Superior Court Commissioner. The Senior Court Clerk issued a notice
directing the appellant to show cause why this appeal should not be
dismissed for this Court’s lack of jurisdiction to consider an appeal directly
from a Superior Court Commissioner’s order.
(2) In her response to the notice to show cause, the appellant does
not address this Court’s lack of jurisdiction. The right of review of a
Commissioner’s order is to a judge of the Superior Court.1 In the absence of
intermediate review by a Superior Court judge, this Court has no jurisdiction
to hear an appeal directly from a Superior Court Commissioner’s order.2
Therefore, this appeal must be dismissed.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, under Supreme Court Rule
29(b), that this appeal is DISMISSED.
BY THE COURT:
/s/ Randy J. Holland
Justice
1
Super. Ct. Civ. R. 132.
2
See Johnson v. State, 884 A.2d 475, 479 (Del. 2005).
2