State v. Dexter

Minneapolis police obtained a warrant to search Tyler Dexter's home based on a tip from a "confidential reliable informant" that contraband was inside. The warrant application included no detail indicating how the informant came to observe the inside of the home. Dexter moved to suppress evidence found in the search on the theory that the informant may have been a police agent who unconstitutionally gathered the information by, for example, entering the home without his consent. And he moved the district court to order the state to disclose the informant's identity, the nature of the…