Legal Opinion

State v. McDonald

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided July 9, 1999No. 98-2220Published

1Per curiam

Reversed. See State v. Peterson, 24 Fla. L. Weekly S288, — So.2d -, 1999 WL 424382 (Fla. June 17, 1999) (overruling Peterson v. State, 706 So.2d 936 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998), and, by implication, McNeely v. State, 690 So.2d 1337 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997), Smith v. State, 637 So.2d 351 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994), and St. Angelo v. State, 532 So.2d 1346 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988), insofar as these decisions require an affiant’s personal knowledge of a confidential informant’s reliability).

ALLEN, LAWRENCE, and BENTON, JJ., CONCUR.

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. State v. PetersonSupreme Court of Florida · 1999
  2. St. Angelo v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1988
  3. McNeely v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1997
  4. Smith v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1994
  5. Peterson v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1998