Culver v. State

STEELE, Chief Justice,

for the Majority:

We address, for the first time, the proper procedures that parole and probation officers must follow after they receive a tip from police officers under their statutory authority to search probationers.1 In this case, probation officers searched probationer-appellant Jeffery Culver’s home after police “tipped off’ probation officers that they suspected that he was involved in drug activity. On appeal, Culver contends that the probation officers violated 11 Del. C. § 4321, and Parole and Probation Procedure 7.19 promulgated under that statute, when they…