State ex rel. Ryle v. Ezell

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• concluding that informants’ tips that defendant was selling drugs were corroborated when officers stopped a man who was leaving the defendant’s house and discovered that he was in possession of oxycodone without a prescription
• finding that a tip from one confidential informant can support a finding of probable cause if the totality of the circumstances bolsters the tip’s reliability
• noting that the Fourth Amendment’s probable cause requirement for warrants “must be premised on the information within the four-corners of the affidavit”
• “So long as the issuing magistrate had a substantial basis for concluding that probable cause existed, a reviewing court should not suppress the evidence seized pursuant to that warrant”
• “The magistrate issuing the warrant must make a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit . . . there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.”
• An affidavit in support of a search warrant must, within the four corners of the affidavit, set forth facts adequate for a judicial officer to form a reasonable belief that an offense has been committed and the property to be seized will be found in a particular place

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).