Rogers v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed the denial of Ronald Rogers’s first motion for postconviction relief and granted the State’s motion to affirm. The court held that the indictment properly charged the robbery offenses because displaying what appeared to be a deadly weapon supports first-degree robbery charges and multiple victims may support multiple robbery counts. Rogers’s ineffective-assistance claim failed because it depended on the meritless indictment challenge, and his voluntary guilty plea independently waived the claims. No separate opinions were filed.