The answer, he believes, can be found in an obscure corner of the state’s criminal justice system — Special Conservators of the Peace. These are the individuals who circuit court judges ...

Holland dismissed Christopher’s claim – that the sheriff’s designation as a “conservator of the peace” means he must have arrest powers in order to enforce that peace – as “without ...

New Mexico Republicans are trying to force state officials to comply with President Donald Trump's mass deportation plans, if ...

The sheriff argued that because the Delaware constitution names sheriffs, among other officials, as “conservators of the peace,” they have constitutional — not common-law — powers ...