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· 9/12/2012

State of Texas v. Duarte, Gilbert

Citations

  • 389 S.W.3d 349
  • 2012 WL 3965824
  • 2012 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1180

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that citizen-informer is more deserving of a presumption of 11 reliability than informant from criminal milieu
  • providing that confidential informants may be considered reliable tipsters if they have a successful “track record”
  • noting that a reviewing court must review a search-warrant affidavit “realistically[] and with common sense”
  • noting that a reviewing court must review a search- warrant affidavit “realistically[] and with common sense”
  • explaining that probable cause exists when there is fair probability that evidence of crime will be found at specified location
  • explaining that probable cause may exist if a tip from a first-time informant is corroborated or is consistent with information provided by other informants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cochran, Meyers, Price, Womack, Johnson, Keasler, Hervey, Alcala, Keller

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