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People v. MacKey

Citations

  • 329 N.W.2d 476
  • 121 Mich. App. 748

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  • information received from a fellow officer may properly be used as a basis for a warrant affidavit, and when one police officer receives information from a fellow officer, the law assumes the source is credible
  • an affiant has an “obligation to inform the magistrate of the fact that he [or she] received . . . information from a fellow officer and of his [or her] reason or reasons for finding the information reliable” so that the magistrate can evaluate whether probable cause exists

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Judges: Walsh, Allen, Gillespie

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