Carlton Gibbs, Defendant-Below, Appellant v. State of Delaware, Plaintiff-Below, Appellee

Summary

The Court affirmed the Superior Court’s denial of Gibbs’s motion for judgment of acquittal. It held that deputized Deputy United States Marshals assisting Delaware police had the same legal status as Delaware State Police officers and therefore qualified as police officers under the applicable statute. The Court also held that the private-property argument concerning leaving the scene of an accident failed under controlling statutory interpretation, while other aspects of the claim were moot, jurisdictionally barred, or abandoned.