Opinion
No. 38, 2020
11-24-2020
XAVIER SPADY, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE OF DELAWARE, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.
Court Below-Superior Court of the State of Delaware Cr. ID No. 1701007644 (N) Before VALIHURA, VAUGHN, and TRAYNOR, Justices. ORDER
After careful consideration of the appellant's opening brief, the State's motion to affirm, and the Superior Court record, we conclude that the judgment below should be affirmed on the basis of and for the reasons assigned by the Superior Court's order, dated December 31, 2019, adopting the Commissioner's Report and Recommendation, dated December 10, 2019, and denying the appellant's motion for postconviction relief. We also conclude that the Superior Court did not abuse its discretion by declining to appoint counsel to assist the appellant, who pleaded guilty, in the postconviction proceedings.
State v. Spady, 2019 WL 7372744 (Del. Super. Ct. Dec. 31, 2019).
State v. Spady, 2019 WL 6717044 (Del. Super. Ct. Dec. 10, 2019).
See Del. Super. Ct. Crim. R. 61(e)(3) (providing that the Superior Court may appoint counsel to assist an indigent movant with a first timely filed motion for postconviction relief under certain circumstances where the basis of the underlying conviction was a guilty plea).
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the State's motion to affirm is GRANTED, and the judgment of the Superior Court is AFFIRMED.
BY THE COURT:
/s/ James T. Vaughn, Jr.
Justice