398 So. 2d 1117 - State v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis

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16 state decisions

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1. “At about two in the morning on the day in question, based on a tip from a confidential informer, the officers attempted to enter defendant's apartment to execute the arrest warrant. They did not have a search warrant for defendant's apartment. Other than the tip from the informer, they had no reason to believe that Dena Riser was located there. There was no showing of how the informer had proven reliable in the past or that the information supplied by him was credible. Nor did the officers taken [sic] any steps to independently corroborate the tip that had been supplied by the informer. Under these circumstances, the officers lacked probable cause to believe that Dena Riser, the subject of the arrest warrant, would be found in defendant's apartment. Moreover, no exigent circumstances existed that would permit the officers to dispense with the requirement of a search warrant. Hence, under Steagald, the warrantless search of defendant’s apartment was impermissible unless based upon defendant’s consent. State v. Wolfe, 398 So.2d at 1120 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 798 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Knight