Supreme Court of Delaware

In a challenge to the validity of an administrative search of a probationer's home which yielded evidence used to convict him on a gun-possession charge, denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence is reversed and conviction vacated where parole and probation procedures require probation officers to assess any tip relayed to them and independently determine if a reasonable suspicion exists that would, in the ordinary course of their duties, prompt a search of a probationer's dwelling.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/06/2008
• Published 08/06/2008

Judges

• STEELE, Chief Justice, for the Majority:, 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:
  
• Albert M. Greto, Wilmington, DE, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory E. Smith, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE, for appellee.