{"id":28599,"date":"2017-08-15T10:31:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28599"},"modified":"2017-08-15T10:31:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T15:31:22","slug":"tn-conclusory-statement-from-ci-defs-had-drugs-and-unsuccessful-controlled-buy-was-neither-pc-for-warrant-nor-rs-for-probation-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28599","title":{"rendered":"TN: Conclusory statement from CI defs had drugs and unsuccessful controlled buy was neither PC for warrant nor RS for probation search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trial court properly granted defendants&#8217; motion to suppress evidence seized as a result of a warrantless search of their house. The information possessed by the officers at the time of the search, including a conclusory statement from a confidential informant and an unsuccessful attempt at a controlled buy at the home, was insufficient to establish that the female defendant, who was on probation, was engaged in illegal drug-related activity at the home. Moreover, there was no reasonable suspicion to support the search as a probation search, because the officers admitted they received vague information that defendants might be involved in drug activity and the officers were unsuccessful in an attempt to buy drugs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/hamm_angela__david_opn.pdf\">State v. Hamm<\/a>, 2017 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 711 (Aug. 11, 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial court properly granted defendants&#8217; motion to suppress evidence seized as a result of a warrantless search of their house. The information possessed by the officers at the time of the search, including a conclusory statement from a confidential &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28599\">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":[44,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay","category-probationparole-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28599","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=28599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28600,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28599\/revisions\/28600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}