State v. Collins

MORRIS, Chief Judge.

Defendant contends that his motion to suppress should have been granted. He asserts that the trial court’s denial of the motion deprived him of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. Specifically, defendant argues that the application for the search warrant did not satisfy the two-pronged test of Aguilar v. Texas, 378 U.S. 108, 12 L.Ed. 2d 723, 84 S.Ct. 1509 (1964), because the issuing official was riot sufficiently informed of the underlying circumstances from which the informant, Smith, concluded that there was con…