Supreme Court of Delaware

Defendant's drug possession conviction is affirmed where: 1) the probation officers satisfied all five requirements for an administrative search under Probation and Parole Procedure 7.19; and 2) although the probation officers may not have followed every aspect of the Department Procedures, they utilized the factors properly to ascertain that there was reasonable suspicion that defendant possessed contraband in violation of his probation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/12/2009
• Published 11/12/2009

Judges

• HOLLAND, Justice:, Before HOLLAND, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices.

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nicole M. Walker, Esquire, Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, DE, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Abby Adams, Esquire, Department of Justice, Georgetown, DE, for appellee.