{"id":8174,"date":"2013-03-09T10:25:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T09:21:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T09:21:44","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8174","title":{"rendered":"CA4: Face-to-face report from a CI is entitled to more weight by law enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A face-to-face report from a confidential informant is entitled to more weight by law enforcement because they can better judge the informant\u2019s credibility. <a href=\"http:\/\/pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinion.pdf\/114896.P.pdf\">United States v. Lawing<\/a>, 703 F.3d 229 (4th Cir. 2012):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here, the police had reasonable suspicion, supported by articulable facts, to believe that criminal activity was afoot when it conducted the stop of Lawing&#8217;s vehicle. The CI had relayed information to the police in a face-to-face setting thereby affording them the clear ability to judge his credibility and corroborate the information he provided. See United States v. Perkins, 363 F.3d 317, 323 (4th Cir. 2004) (stating that law enforcement in a face-to-face encounter with an informant, can &#8220;judge the credibility of the tipster firsthand and thus confirm whether the tip is sufficiently reliable to support reasonable suspicion&#8221;). Informants who report tips face-to-face are &#8220;more trustworthy and reliable than [an] anonymous tip&#8221; because law enforcement can hold the informant accountable for false statements. Christmas, 222 F.3d at 144. Moreover, informants who make statements adverse to their own penal interests may bolster their credibility. See United States v. Harris, 403 U.S. 573, 583 (1971) (stating &#8220;[a]dmissions of crime &#8230; carry their own indicia of credibility.&#8221;).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}