Fuller v. State

In this appeal we consider the admissibility in a violation of probation hearing of evidence seized when police and probation officers stopped and searched the vehicle of a probationer after probation officers received a tip from a past proven reliable informant that the probationer was selling drugs. The defendant contends that the search was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment because the searching officers failed to follow correctional department procedures governing searches of probationers and parolees. Because the officers followed the guidelines that render the search reasonable…