Commonwealth v. Desper

I agree with the court that apart from an adequate description of a “controlled buy” the affidavit in this case failed to establish probable cause adequate to support a search warrant. This is so, because the reliability of the anonymous informant was not established either by the other recitations within the affidavit or by independent investigation by the police, sufficient to corroborate the informant’s information. I also agree with the court that a controlled purchase of narcotics, supervised by the police, may corroborate the reliability of an informant’s information sufficiently to…