United States v. Rickie Albert Scalia

How courts have described this case

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• addressing standards for admission of drug quantity estimations in sentencing proceeding
• “where the informant was ‘not a professional *** but a private citizen with no known criminal record or other criminal contacts, who came forward on his own ***[,] the informant’s story may be more easily accepted’ ” (emphasis omitted)
• issuing judge’s “probable cause” determination entitled to “great deference”
• “In the absence of a prior record of reliability, we have recognized that, where the informant was ‘not a professional but a private citizen with no known criminal record or other criminal contacts, who came forward on his own, the informant’s story may be more easily accepted ....’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).