State v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “simply to make a practical, commonsense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit, including the `veracity' and `basis of knowledge' of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular case. And the duty of a reviewing court is simply to insure that the magistrate had a `substantial basis for... conclud[ing] that probable cause existed.”

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