United States v. Keeve’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
April 1989
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 934
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Brown v. Illinois · Draper v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“Informers, paid or unpaid, are commonly encountered in narcotics investigations. Such individuals, of course, are usually deeply involved in the very criminal activity the police are investigating. Ofttimes, they have long criminal records involving drug addiction, perversion, thievery and the like. The law has long recognized that information supplied by such individuals would not ordinarily be believed by a reasonable and prudent person, unless there be some independent basis for crediting it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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