United States v. Robert Hill

How courts have described this case

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

• informant’s face-to-face contact with police after alighting from vehicle whose license plate was visible to officer put anonymity at risk
• same, noting that an identified informant exposes herself to a charge of filing a false report with police under G.L. c. 269, § 13A
• \these individuals do not have the protection from the consequences of prevarication that anonymity would afford\ [quotation and citation omitted]
• informant’s willingness to place his anonymity at risk bore heavily upon the reliability of the tip, as identified and readily identifiable individuals expose themselves to charges of filing false reports
• informant sufficiently reliable where he provided information in person to State police officer who did not record his name but recorded license plate number of vehicle in which he rode
• reliability prong satisfied where citizen witness was identifiable, if not identified, when he presented himself to police in person and alighted from vehicle whose registration plate was visible to officer and could potentially be traced

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).