{"id":20356,"date":"2016-01-15T09:49:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20356"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:49:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:49:55","slug":"ca11-cis-trip-was-not-predictive-but-still-barely-enough-to-show-reliability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20356","title":{"rendered":"CA11: CI&#8217;s trip was not predictive but still [barely] enough to show reliability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The informant\u2019s tip here was enough to show reliability, even though only readily observable facts were relied upon. \u201cIn this case, the tip did not predict Brown&#8217;s behavior; it only provided past or present information. As such, the tip is less reliable than if it had predicted Brown&#8217;s future actions. We do not suggest, however, that tips must always predict future behavior to be reliable. Prediction is but one indicator of reliability.\u201d \u201cDespite the tip&#8217;s lack of predictive power, the tip was reliable because the informant witnessed Brown selling drugs and the police corroborated presently observable facts, including Brown&#8217;s usual business practice [of selling heroin solely out of a backpack].\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/files\/201415602.pdf\">United States v. Brown<\/a>, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 360 (11th Cir. Jan. 11, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The informant\u2019s tip here was enough to show reliability, even though only readily observable facts were relied upon. \u201cIn this case, the tip did not predict Brown&#8217;s behavior; it only provided past or present information. As such, the tip is &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20356\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20357,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions\/20357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}