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 ...

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 ...