State v. Jones

This appeal presents two questions for our consideration. The first is whether three controlled purchases of suspected cocaine at a single-family dwelling from persons with prior drug-related arrests and convictions establish probable cause sufficient for the issuance of a search warrant when the confidential informant who supplied the initial tip is of unknown reliability. The second is whether a suspect’s seven-year-old arrest for assault against a pohce officer and a weapons-related crime justifies a “no-knock” entry in the totality of the circumstances. The Appellate Division held that…