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· 5/29/1998

United States v. Dewayne Wright

Citations

  • 145 F.3d 972
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 10714
  • 1998 WL 271534

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that the statements of a reliable informant can be enough for probable cause
  • “The reliability of a confidential informant can be established if the person has a history of providing law enforcement officials with truthful information ”
  • informant's track record of reliability was established by successful controlled purchases of crack cocaine
  • “The statements of a reliable confidential informant are themselves sufficient to support probable cause for a search warrant .... The reliability of a confidential informant can be established if the person has a history of providing law enforcement officials with truthful information.”
  • \The statements of a reliable confidential informant are themselves sufficient to support probable cause for a search warrant. . . . The reliability of a confidential informant can be established if the person has a history of providing law enforcement officials with truthful information.\

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Judges: Beam, Heaney, Gibson

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