Tulare Lake Canal Co. v. United States

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 DEA agent’s recital of discussions with an informant, while hearsay, were reliable
• noting that the covert nature of the drug trade precludes seizure and precise measurement of the drugs that flow through a drug distribution conspiracy
• recognizing that a “degree of estimation” is often necessary because the “covert nature of the drug trade precludes seizure and precise measurement of the drugs that flow through a drug distribution conspiracy”
• stating that courts must “carefully scrutinize the government’s proof’ in estimates of drug quantities attributable to a given defendant
• determining that an agent’s recital of events from a discussion with a confidential informant met the sufficient indicia of reliability standard
• acknowledging that “in calculating the amount of drugs involved in a particular operation, a degree of estimation is sometimes necessary”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).