Supreme Court of Delaware
Collins v. State
September 23, 2016
Summary
The Supreme Court of Delaware held that Collins’s sentence was illegal because the Superior Court imposed two years of Level III probation for heroin trafficking, although the applicable statutory maximum was eighteen months. The Court reversed the denial of Collins’s Rule 35(a) motion and remanded for resentencing, while affirming the denial of his Rule 35(b) sentence-reduction motion because it was filed outside the ninety-day period and did not establish extraordinary circumstances.