Burks v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““Hearsay allegations of a confidential informant may be considered in a suppression hearing on the issue of probable cause, but such hearsay allegations are patently inadmissible and have no place in the trial itself. Tierce v. State, 396 So.2d 1090 (Ala.Crim.App.1981); Satterwhite v. State, 364 So.2d 359 (Ala.1978); Small v. State, 348 So.2d 504 (Ala.Crim.App.1977), affirmed, 348 So.2d 507 (Ala.1977). “The courts of this state have repeatedly held that admission of hearsay testimony concerning information received from a confidential informant is clearly reversible error if a proper objection was made at trial. Tierce, supra; Satterwhite, supra; Irwin v. State, 421 So.2d 1371 (Ala.Crim.App.1982); Bowen v. State, 406 So.2d 1077 (Ala.Crim.App.1981).””

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