Supreme Court of Delaware

Sykes v. State

March 20, 2018

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed the denial of Sykes’s motion for postconviction relief. It held that the Superior Court had jurisdiction to accept his guilty plea to attempted intentional murder because that offense was within the court’s jurisdiction, and it rejected his claim of a plea-negotiation conflict because he pleaded guilty against counsel’s advice and there were no plea negotiations.