United States v. Gerald L. Sidwell

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a controlled buy established probable cause that a residence contained drugs when a “confidential informant entered the building without contraband” and “exit[ed] moments later” with cocaine
• concluding that controlled buy supported probable cause even though informant could have obtained drugs from any person in one of several units in apartment building where defendant lived
• stating that “probable cause requires only a probability or a substantial chance that evidence may be found”
• “Generally, a controlled buy, when executed properly, is a reliable indicator as to the presence of illegal drug activity.”
• “[A] controlled buy, when executed properly, is a reliable indicator as to the presence of illegal drug activity.”(emphasis added)
• “Generally, a controlled buy, when executed properly, is a reliable indicator as to the presence of illegal drug activity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).