United States v. Jorge William Gaviria and Victor Contreras

How courts have described this case

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• accom- plice’s story was confirmed when defendant matched de- scription given by accomplice and was found at address given by accomplice
• \[A] witness to a crime need 5 not be shown to have been previously reliable before the authorities may rely on [her] statements.\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “the probable cause standard ‘does not deal with hard certainties, but with probabilities.’ ”
• if informant participated in crime, authorities do not need to prove informant’s prior trustwor- thiness when relying on his statements to establish probable cause to arrest alleged accomplice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).