State v. Northness

How courts have described this case

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

• attributing greater reliability to “ordinary citizen” than to “criminal or professional informant”
• citizen more likely to be reliable when citizen's identity is revealed to the issuing magistrate
• \[T]he fact that an identified eyewitness informant may also be under suspicion —in this case because of her initial contact has been held not to vitiate the inference of reliability raised by the detailed nature of the information and the disclosure of the informant's identity.\
• discussing four general categories of informants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).