{"id":47637,"date":"2021-03-11T09:34:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47637"},"modified":"2021-03-11T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:34:50","slug":"wa-uncorroborated-cis-story-not-rs-or-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47637","title":{"rendered":"WA: Uncorroborated CI&#8217;s story not RS or PC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CI was not shown to be sufficiently reliable by an attempt to corroborate her to justify defendant\u2019s stop and subsequent search. \u201cUnlike a citizen informant calling 911, a criminal informant is not presumed to be acting out of civic responsibility. \u2026 Instead, the criminal informant&#8217;s motives may \u2018include offers of immunity or sentence reduction in exchange for cooperation, promises of money payments \u2026 and such perverse motives as revenge or the hope of eliminating criminal competition.\u2019 \u2026 Experience and common sense dictate that a criminal informant cannot be deemed equally credible as a citizen informant. Additional indicia of veracity are required.\u201d Ordered suppressed on appeal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/pdf\/371603_pub.pdf\">State v. Morrell,<\/a> 2021 Wash. App. LEXIS 501 (Mar. 9, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The district court decides 2254 petitioner\u2019s Fourth Amendment habeas claim on the merits with Heien reasonableness, even if the officer was technically wrong. Core v. Warden, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43806 (N.D. Ind. Mar. 9, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CI was not shown to be sufficiently reliable by an attempt to corroborate her to justify defendant\u2019s stop and subsequent search. \u201cUnlike a citizen informant calling 911, a criminal informant is not presumed to be acting out of civic responsibility. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47637\">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":[44,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47637","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=47637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47638,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47637\/revisions\/47638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}