State v. Karr

Defendants allege that these searches were illegal. The argument is that the warrants were issued without probable cause and, specifically, that the affidavits in the warrants failed to provide an adequate factual basis for the judges’ findings of probable cause.

In each case, the affiant was a police officer, and in each case the warrant was issued on the basis of information received from an unnamed confidential informant. In State v Karr, the affidavit stated that: “Information received from a reliable informant, who has given reliable and factual information in the past which has led to…