Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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1. “Considering the affidavit exclusive of the statements that were untrue or made with reckless disregard for the truth of the statements, it contains a statement of Officer X’s credentials and an uncorroborated representation by an informant whom Officer X may or may not have known before that the informant went to the apartment in question and bought crack cocaine with money that Officer X provided him. We hold that the surviving portion of the affidavit is inadequate to support a neutral magistrate’s probable cause determination that would justify the warrant. Consequently, we hold that the trial court abused its discretion in denying Appellant’s motion to suppress. 4”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harris v. State