State v. Huntley’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “An undercover narcotics operation would contain almost exclusively the undercover officer's statements since it does not have victims per se as in most crimes, and there generally are no witness interviews. It is also by nature an ongoing operation, markedly different from those criminal investigations which arise as the result of a complaint made to elicit police intervention. Accordingly, we find it extremely important that when the legislature added R.S. 44:3A(4) in 1984 it limited public accessibility to reports of the officer or officers investigating a complaint, and did not amend the earlier exclusion provided by R.S. 44:3A(5) which excluded the disclosure of the identity of undercover police officers. Therefore we find that in the present case Shropshire and McEwen do not mandate disclosure of the supplemental report as a public record since it would reveal records containing the identity of undercover police personnel who were involved in a narcotics investigation. [1] 526 So.2d at 1316”

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

2. “should include all information obtained in the initial investigation of the complaint, especially when the initial investigation following a complaint results in the requesting party's arrest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 566 So. 2d 1038 - State v. Campbell