Jones v. State of Delaware

Summary

The Court affirmed the denial of Jones’s motions to reduce or modify his sentence. It held that filing placeholder motions within ninety days did not preserve the ability to submit substantive sentence-reduction motions after the ninety-day period, and that Jones’s asserted remorse, non-habitual-offender status, and COVID-19 concerns did not establish extraordinary circumstances. The Court explained that a Department of Correction application under Section 4217 was the proper vehicle for medically based sentence modification.