Commonwealth v. Fleurant

How courts have described this case

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

• “[ejvidence that the informant was an eye witness is a constitutionally sufficient demonstration of the source of his information”
• to meet the second prong, “[e]vidence that the informant was an eyewitness is a constitutionally sufficient demonstration of the source of his information”
• unlike drugs or liquors, a collection of weapons is not likely to be consumed or destroyed
• thirteen-month-old information about machine gun not stale because “informant had provided ‘considerable additional information’ that indicated that . . . firearms remained in the home”
• “informant had provided ‘considerable additional information’ that indicated that . . . firearms remained in the home”
• the affiant’s occasion to question the informant may be considered in assessing credibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).