Commonwealth v. Cast

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding the reliability of a Cl’s information may be bolstered by such knowledge
• acknowledging that a vehicle's mobility can create an exigency
• that informant gave agents his telephone number indicated that tip itself contained some indicia of reliability
• Commonwealth “must show . . . ‘that it was impracticable for [officers] to get a warrant’ ” [emphasis in original]
• informant met with Federal agents and gave telephone number at which he was later reached
• An unnamed informant’s tip contained sufficient detail about the defendant’s appearance, background, and behavior to permit the inference that his information was based on personal observation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).