United States v. Christopher Frazier

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that unreliable informant’s “allegation that the defendant is a drug dealer” was insufficient
• concluding that the record did not support the defendant’s contention that the magistrate “issued the warrant without reading the affidavit” and therefore that the magistrate did not abandon his judicial role
• holding that “[w]here, as here, the warrant affidavit is based almost exclusively on the uncorroborated testimony of unproven confidential informants (none of whom witnessed illegal activity on the premises of the proposed search
• observing that “in the absence of any indicia of the reliability of an informant, courts insist that the affidavit contain substantial independent police corroboration”
• observing that “in the absence of any indicia of the reliability of an informant, courts insist that the affidavit contain substantial independent police corroboration”
• observing that “in the absence of any indicia of the reliability of an informant, courts insist that the affidavit contain substantial independent police corroboration”

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