{"id":27166,"date":"2017-05-14T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T01:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27166"},"modified":"2017-05-14T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T01:26:08","slug":"pa-a-defs-admission-transmitted-through-an-informant-is-only-as-reliable-as-its-conduit-is-trustworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27166","title":{"rendered":"PA: A def&#8217;s &#8220;admission transmitted through an informant is only as reliable as its conduit is trustworthy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[A]n admission per se is inherently reliable evidence&#8221; sufficient to establish probable cause to arrest, but holding that &#8220;an admission transmitted through an informant is only as reliable as its conduit is trustworthy.&#8221; Commonwealth v. Stokes, 480 Pa. 38, 389 A.2d 74, 78 (1978). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S15023-17o%20-%2010309683717329184.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Young<\/a>, 2017 PA Super 142, 2017 Pa. Super. LEXIS 334 (May 11, 2017)<\/p>\n<p>Defendant can relitigate his search and seizure claim through a 2255 IAC claim. Dockery v. United States, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72690 (M.D. N.C. May 12, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[A]n admission per se is inherently reliable evidence&#8221; sufficient to establish probable cause to arrest, but holding that &#8220;an admission transmitted through an informant is only as reliable as its conduit is trustworthy.&#8221; Commonwealth v. Stokes, 480 Pa. 38, 389 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27166\">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":[23,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ineffective-assistance","category-informant-hearsay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27167,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166\/revisions\/27167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}