It matters not whether a police informant’s history is unknown to a suppression court judge, the state Supreme Court has ruled, because police must still corroborate that information before conducting a search and seizure and the court must weigh the totality of the circumstances surrounding that action before deciding on the evidence’s admissability.
In making its ruling, the court reversed a Superior Court decision that required law enforcement officials to provide a “laundry list” of specific details to support using an informant.
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