Supreme Court of Delaware

Christopher Wheeler, Defendant Below, Appellant v. State of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee

March 2, 20162016 Del. LEXIS 121

Summary

The court held that the warrants used to search Wheeler’s home, office, and digital devices were unconstitutional general warrants because they authorized an essentially unrestricted search without meaningful temporal or subject-matter limits. The court therefore reversed the suppression ruling and Wheeler’s convictions, concluding that the warrants violated the particularity requirements of both the Fourth Amendment and the Delaware Constitution. No separate opinions were filed.