Richmond v. State

HORSEY, Justice:

The issue in this appeal is whether a minimum mandatory sentence may be reduced by credits earned for good behavior otherwise entitling an offender to diminution of confinement.

Defendant, Larry J. Richmond, appeals Superior Court’s grant of only partial relief upon Richmond’s Rule 35(a) motion for correction of his resentencing in 1979 for robbery offenses as to which Richmond had earlier pled guilty.

In 1977, Richmond pled guilty to two counts of Robbery in the first degree, 11 Del.G. § 832(a)(2) and two counts of Possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a…