Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/13/2007

Commonwealth v. Costa

Citations

448 Mass. 510
862 N.E.2d 371
2007 Mass. LEXIS 173

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\according more weight to the reliability of identified persons . . . [because they] may be subject to charges of filing false reports and risk retaliation\
explaining \[t]he rationale for according more weight to the reliability of identified persons\
911 emergency operator informed anonymous caller that call was being recorded and that operator had caller’s cellular telephone number
police arrived within minutes of anonymous caller’s tip, and “were able to corroborate many of the [albeit innocent] details provided by the caller”
caller “provided] information to the police after knowing that her call was being recorded, and that the number she was calling from had been identified”
“the reliability of citizen informants who are identifiable, but may not have been identified, is deserving of greater consideration than that of truly anonymous sources”

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Judges: Cordy

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