Commonwealth v. Cramutola

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing court does not conduct de novo review of probable cause determination, but rather is limited to determining whether there was a substantial basis for the issuing authority's finding of probable cause
• defendant arrested for dealing drugs from her home after warrant was obtained as a result of surveillance
• “[I]nformation provided to the police by an anonymous source can establish probable cause if it is corroborated.”
• “[I]nformation provided to the police by an anonymous source can establish probable cause if it is corroborated.”
• “The law is clear that information provided to the police by an anonymous source can establish probable cause so long as it is corroborated by police investigation”
• issuance of warrant upheld where repeated controlled buy attempts failed because defendant refused to sell because she “did not know [the purchaser],” thought the purchaser “could be a cop,” and “did not have any [drugs], but told [the purchaser] to call in advance next time”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).