Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 3/22/1995

State v. Hilliard

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906 S.W.2d 466
1995 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 246

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holding that suppression of evidence was not necessary when the search warrant was never returned to the issuing magistrate as required in Rule 41(d)
concluding that a statement in the affidavit that the confidential informant had previously provided information resulting in the arrest and conviction of known drug dealers satisfied the “veracity” prong of the Aguilar-Spinelli test
stating that the defendant did not waive an objection to an indictment which failed to charge the element of the offense requiring possession of one-half gram or more of cocaine because the defendant did not raise the issue before the trial
affidavit stating that confidential informant has “used crack cocaine in the past,” and “[k]nows crack cocaine and recognizes it when they see it”
past information from the informant had “resulted in the arrest and convictions of known drug dealers”
the defendant could only be convicted of a Class C rather than a Class B felony because of the failure to allege the amount of cocaine in indictment

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Judges: Peay, Summers, Tipton

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