United States v. Clinton Elbert McKinney

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• holding that a controlled buy is a particularly powerful form of corroboration in a . drug case and strongly boosts an informant’s reliability
• concluding that controlled buys supported probable cause even though police had no surveillance inside retail store where buys occurred and did not fully search untested informant ahead of time
• concluding that controlled buys supported probable cause even though police had no surveillance inside retail store where buys occurred and did not fully search untested informant ahead of time
• noting that \[a] search warrant should not issue except on probable cause that evidence of a crime is currently located at a particular place\ (emphasis added)
• \A search warrant should not issue except on probable cause that evidence of a crime is currently located at a particular place.\
• “Controlled buys add great weight to an informant’s tip.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).