State v. Niehaus

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that there is a rebuttable presumption that “information imparted by a citizen informant is generally reliable”
• holding that there is a rebuttable presumption that \information imparted by a citizen informant is generally reliable\
• defining citizen informant as “a person who is a witness to or victim of a crime”
• noting the corroboration of details of the informant’s information, even when not inculpatory details, supports the reliability of the information
• stating the presumption “that information imparted by a citizen informant is generally reliable” but requiring “a common-sense analysis of the totality of the circumstances . . . to assess its reliability”
• stating the inquiry is “limited to a determination of whether the affiant was purposely untruthful with regard to a material fact in his or her application for the warrant, or acted with reckless disregard for the truth”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).