United States v. Lawrence L. Olson

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that even minimally reliable tips take on added meaning when corroborated by police investigation
• explaining that a criminal record check for past conduct wasn’t enough to corroborate a confidential information probable cause testimony, but it does “retain some corroborative value” because the analysis relies on the totality of the circumstances
• reasoning that the corroborative weight of an anonymous tip was compromised when the warrant affidavit failed to indicate how police obtained tip information, whether the officer knew the identity of the tipster, and the basis of the tipster’s knowl- edge
• remanding for resentencing because district court’s reason for not counting the possession offense as relevant conduct was unclear
• remanding for resentencing because district court’s reason for not counting the possession offense as relevant conduct was unclear
• instructing the district court to determine whether the defendant “possessed the drugs [involved in his plea to possession of a controlled substance] merely for his personal use, or with an intent to distribute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).