Legal Opinion

State v. Haley

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided March 16, 1990PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

In this interlocutory appeal by the State in the prosecution of George Berton Haley for trafficking in marijuana, we vacate the order of the Superior Court (Lincoln County, Bradford, J.) suppressing the evidentia-ry fruits of a search of defendant’s trailer home in Jefferson made by the police under the authority of a search warrant. The Superior Court declared that the affidavit presented to the magistrate who issued the search warrant 1 was “insufficient to support a finding of probable cause because it is comprised entirely of information supplied to the police by…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Brinegar v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
  2. State v. KnowltonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1985
  3. State v. LutzSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1989
  4. State v. MarquisSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1987

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. State v. RabonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2007
  2. State v. NigroSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2011
  3. State v. VegliaSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1993
  4. State v. WardSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1993
  5. State v. LamsonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1994

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