United States v. Bernice Malloy Miller

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• concluding that officers could have found an informant’s tip reliable where the informant provided the name of a known drug dealer to police
• holding that \observing a substantial portion of what the informant's tip had said they would see\ is evidence of corroboration
• holding that a tip’s reliability was sup- ported by officer’s corroboration of informant’s predictions of defen- dant’s future behavior as well as officer’s knowledge of defendant’s prior criminal activity
• holding infor- mant’s tip corroborated, in part, because the officer \knew that [the defendant] had been involved in illegal narcotics in the past\ based on his prior arrest of defendant for cocaine possession approximately one year earlier
• emphasizing that neither Supreme Court nor Fourth Circuit prece- dents \create[ ] a requirement that police officers acting on an infor- mant’s tip must corroborate that tip in some specific way such as conducting an independent investigation\
• finding indicia of reliability in informant’s tip established through informant’s interest in obtaining leniency by supplying accurate information, officer’s knowledge of defendant’s criminal past and officer’s personal observation of the events corroborating much of the tip

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