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Supreme Court of South Carolina· 9/26/1988

State v. Crane

Citations

  • 372 S.E.2d 587
  • 296 S.C. 336
  • 1988 S.C. LEXIS 109

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a defendant failed to demonstrate a reasonable expectation of privacy by filling barrels with marijuana and placing them in a ditch located in a wooded area behind his home
  • holding that a magistrate’s probable cause determination is entitled to substantial deference so that a reviewing court must only decide whether the magistrate had a substantial basis for concluding that probable cause existed
  • holding the magistrate should determine probable cause based on all the information available to him at the time the warrant is issued, including sworn oral testimony
  • holding the magistrate should determine probable cause based on all the information available to him at the time the warrant is issued, including sworn oral testimony
  • finding because the appellant could not “make the threshold demonstration of a legitimate expectation of privacy in connection with the searched premises,” he was not entitled to challenge whether the magistrate had probable cause to issue the warrant
  • “[A] search warrant affidavit insufficient in itself to establish probable cause may be supplemented before a magistrate by sworn oral testimony.”

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Judges: Harwell, Gregory, Chandler, Finney, Toal

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