Bodin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

50 state decisions

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1. “(2) If it appears from the evidence in the case or from other showing by a party that an informer may be able to give testimony necessary to a fair determination of the issues of guilt, innocence and the public entity invokes the privilege, the judge shall give the public entity an opportunity to show in camera facts relevant to determining whether the informer can, in fact, supply that testimony; or (3) If information from an informer is relied upon to establish the legality of the means by which evidence was obtained and the judge is not satisfied that the information was received from an informer reasonably believed to be reliable or credible, he may require the identity of the informer to be disclosed. The judge shall, on request of the public entity, direct that the disclosure be made in camera.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Long v. State · Brokenberry v. State

2. “Evidence from any source, but not mere conjecture or speculation must be presented to make the required showing that the CI's identity must be disclosed.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Montalbo v. State · Long v. State

3. “Officer Virgil Price of the Houston Police Department testified he and his partner, Officer Mitchell, put together a controlled buy of narcotics on September 7, 1988, after receiving information from a confidential informant that appellant was engaged in drug trafficking at appellant’s residence .... Officers Price and Mitchell gave their confidential informant twenty-five dollars and watched. him ,go inside appellant’s apartment. Price stated the informant emerged four or five minutes later with the methamphetamine just purchased from appellant. The informant provided Price with a description of appellant. Price then prepared an affidavit and search warrant which was later approved and signed by Judge Kolenda. [[Image here]] Officers found the methamphetamine, which formed the basis of this conviction, in a key box when they executed the search warrant. [[Image here]] Appellant [testified at trial] ... that a man named James brought drugs into his apartment on September 7, 1988. James “did some drugs” when appellant was in the bedroom, then left fifteen minutes later. Appellant noticed a key box sitting on his kitchen table, and assumed James had left the box. Appellant put the box in his pocket, meaning to later return it to James when the police entered the apartment with the search warrant. Officers found the methamphetamine in the key box.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dadrian Terrell Thomas v. State