Foster v. State

BRETT, Presiding Judge,

specially concurring.

In the case of Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 103 S.Ct. 2317, 76 L.Ed.2d 527 (1983), the United States Supreme Court examined a search warrant that was issued on the basis of an anonymous letter, the details of which were partially corroborated by police officers. The courts below had ruled that the affidavit in support of the application for the search warrant was inadequate under the two-pronged test developed by the Supreme Court in Aguilar v. Texas, 378 U.S. 108, 84 S.Ct. 1509, 12 L.Ed.2d 723 (1964), and Spinelli v. United States, 393 U.S.…