SC: No specific facts showed PC that drugs would be found at def’s house; CoA reversed

“More to the point, the assertions in the affidavit in this case contain no specific facts showing any connection between drug-related activity and 120 River Street after February 2009. See Tench, 353 S.C. at 534, 579 S.E.2d at 316; Kinloch, 410 S.C. at 616, 767 S.E.2d at 155. And we find the non-specific statement in the affidavit—that in the past six months law enforcement observed Thompson stop at 120 River Street ‘just before making cocaine deliveries throughout Spartanburg County’—is insufficiently specific to provide a fair probability the evidence sought by the search warrant would be located there.” State v. Thompson, 2017 S.C. LEXIS 39 (Feb. 22, 2017), rev’g State v. Thompson, 413 S.C. 590, 776 S.E.2d 413 (App. 2015).

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