Supreme Court of Delaware

Jones v. State

May 16, 2016

Summary

The Court affirmed the denial of Jones’s postconviction motion because a challenge to the legality of a habitual-offender sentence was not cognizable under the postconviction rule. The Court further held that the motion was untimely and, alternatively, that the vagueness challenge lacked merit because the federal statutory language found unconstitutional does not appear in Delaware’s habitual-offender statute.