Coles v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed the summary dismissal of Coles’s second postconviction motion. It held that the amended procedural bars governing successive motions applied because the motion was filed after June 4, 2014, and that Coles had not asserted either qualifying new evidence of factual innocence or a new, retroactive constitutional rule. The court therefore did not reach the merits of his underlying claims.