Colaw v. Commonwealth

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• analyzing a search warrant - 11 - issued based on conclusory allegations
• “Only by blindly accepting the informant’s conclusory statement could one believe that drugs would be at the residence.”
• “A police officer could not reasonably have believed that the warrant was properly issued when it was based on a ‘bare bones’ affidavit that contained only conclusory assertions by a third-party informant about a future event without supporting facts to constitute probable cause.”
• \A police officer could not reasonably have believed that the warrant was properly issued when it was based on a `bare bones' affidavit that contained only conclusory assertions by a third-party informant about a future event without supporting facts to constitute probable cause.\
• “A police officer could not reasonably have believed that the warrant was properly issued when it was based on a ‘bare bones’ affidavit that contained only conclusory assertions by a third-party informant about a future event without supporting facts to constitute probable cause.”
• “A police officer could not reasonably have believed that the warrant was properly issued when it was based on a ‘bare bones’ affidavit that contained only conclusory assertions by a third-party informant about a future event without supporting facts to constitute probable cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).