In Re Thornton Ray Prophet v. the State of Texas

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• holding that defendant was not entitled to disclosure of informant when defendant had requested disclosure at trial only in his attack on the affidavit supporting the search warrant
• holding that an affidavit in support of a search warrant containing hearsay from a confidential source may be reliable “so long as there was a substantial basis for crediting the hearsay”
• holding that an affidavit in support of a search warrant containing hearsay from a confidential source may be reliable \so long as there was a substantial basis for crediting the hearsay\
• holding warrant not undermined and affiant did not act in bad faith where affiant relied upon erroneous statements made by third party
• dissenting opinion for four justices dealing with merits of question; opinion for majority substantially avoids question on procedural ground
• declining to require disclosure of informant’s identity because defendant did not “intimat[e]” that the informant was the sole participant and thus the Court “cannot say on this record that the name of the informant was necessary to his defense”

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