United States v. Terrence C. May

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• noting that affidavit which stated only that the “cooperating source has provided assistance in unrelated drug investigation cases” was sufficient
• crediting as independent police corroboration the affidavit's averment that surveillance team saw a particular individual involved in unrelated investigation entering suspect's residence
• finding that “[t]he statements of an informant ..., whose identity was known to the police and who would be subject to prosecution for making a false report, are ... entitled to far greater weight than those of an anonymous source”
• rejecting the district court’s conclusion that an unidentified informant’s statements must be corroborated by independent police investigation
• finding a confidential informant reliable where the affidavit stated that the informant “provided assistance in unrelated drug investigation cases”
• finding informant to be “known” where source “ha[d] furnished information . . . for a period of six months and has worked with [the officer] in the investigation of th[e] matter”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).