United States v. Fred Louis Bell and Charles Lavern Beasley

How courts have described this case

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• discussing the importance of victim statements by noting that the information provided by victim eyewitnesses and identified bystanders do not require supporting affidavits attesting to the reliability of the information
• Aguilar-Spinelli requirements limited to informants only; eyewitnesses “by definition are not passing along idle rumor”
• only full-length photograph among those shown, where witness had seen criminal standing beside his car
• an aider and abettor is a principal and can be punished as such
• held: Aguilar-Spinelli applies only to [professional] informant situation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).