AJ 014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Exigent Circumstance, Informant, Affidavit

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Administration of Justice (AJ)
• Course: AJ 014
• Professor: ahle

Document Summary

2. the underlying circumstances from which the informant had concluded that a crime had been committed (spinelli-aguilar two- F: d = convicted of conducting gambling activities. Before securing a search warrant to search his premises for evidence of this crime, fbi kept track of his movements for 5 days & checked w/ his telephone company to verify he had 2 telephones at this address. Fbi stated that a confidential informant told them that d was operating a gambling biz. Affidavit also stated that d was known to the affiant (person filing the affidavit) and other federal and local law enforcement officers as a gambler and known associate of gamblers. Building upon aguilar v. texas, sc created a 2 prong. Illinois v. gates (1984) (rejected aguilar test; used in the rest of the 46 states) F: a anonymous handwritten letter arrived at the police department indicating that ds were drug dealing.