Ambrose L. Sykes, Defendant Below, Appellant v. State of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee

Summary

The Court affirmed denial of Sykes's second motion for postconviction relief. It held that the asserted evidence was neither genuinely new nor sufficient to create a strong inference of actual innocence, and that ineffective assistance of initial postconviction counsel could not overcome the successive-petition bar after the governing rule amendments. The Court also rejected reconsideration of the prior rule that the former interest-of-justice exception no longer permits such successive claims.