Jones v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Rule 61 establishes the procedure for setting aside a conviction or sentence of death only and that any other sentencing issues must be raised in a Rule 35 motion
• “Because the language at issue in Johnson does not appear in Delaware’s habitual offender statute, 11 Del. C. § 4214, this Court has held that the holding of Johnson does not apply under Delaware law.”
• because the troubling language at issue in the federal armed-career-criminal statute did not appear in Delaware’s habitual offender statute the federal courts’ holdings that a provision of the federal statute was unconstitutionally vague did not apply under Delaware law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-08-04
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-03-21
• State v. Brown
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2020-08-31