Commonwealth v. Reddington

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• defendant failed to establish that law enforcement knew or should have known that evidence was false or inaccurate
• six month old tip about once seeing drags in defendant’s house stale and insufficient to establish probable cause
• mere repetition of rumor, with no independent police corroboration, does nothing to meet the basis of knowledge test
• motion to dismiss indictments properly denied where police officer's grand jury testimony was inaccurate but made in good faith
• seven month old tip about once seeing drug transactions in defendant’s house stale
• dismissal not warranted where \[t]he defendant [] failed to establish that the Commonwealth or [the police officer] knew or should have known that the testimony in question was false or inaccurate.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).