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2025 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 23. SEARCH AND SEIZURE
Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 2302. Search without warrant in hot pursuit.
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§ 2302. Search without warrant in hot pursuit.
A search of a person, house, building, conveyance, place or other thing may be made without a warrant if the search is made for a person hotly pursued provided the pursuer has probable cause to believe that such person has committed a felony or a misdemeanor.
Code 1935, §§ 5343-BB; 48 Del. Laws, c. 303; 11 Del. C. 1953, § 2302; 56 Del. Laws, c. 422, § 2;
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