State v. Gale

In these consolidated criminal cases,1 the trial court granted defendants’ motions to suppress evidence on the ground that the facts alleged in the affidavit supporting the search warrant were too stale to establish probable cause. We reverse.

The warrant, issued on November 2,1988, was based on an affidavit by Officer Shadwick, in which he related information received by police from 1986 to 1988. The issue is whether the affidavit contained information sufficiently linking defendant Rowden to an ongoing methamphetamine manufacturing and distributing enterprise to enable a magistrate to…