Supreme Court of Delaware

Conviction for various drug and weapons charges and life sentence is reversed and remanded where an affidavit in support of a search warrant did not provide the issuing magistrate a substantial basis for concluding there was probable cause that evidence or contraband would be found inside defendant's apartment. The affidavit did not contain any corroborating information to establish the reliability of an anonymous tipster's assertion of illegality.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/22/2008
• Published 04/22/2008

Judges

• RIDGELY, Justice., Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, JACOBS, RIDGELY, Justices, and NOBLE, Vice Chancellor, constituting the Court en Banc.

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher D. Tease, Esquire, Wilmington, Delaware, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kevin Carroll, Esquire, of the Department of Justice, Wilmington, Delaware, for appellee.