State v. Lindquist

Defendant, convicted of possession of marijuana in violation of Minn. St. 152.09, subd. 1, contends on this appeal from the judgment of conviction that police violated his Fourth Amendment rights when they arrested him because they did not have sufficient information to conclude that the informer, on whose tip they relied in making the arrest, was credible, a requirement established by the United States Supreme Court in Aguilar v. Texas, 378 U. S. 108, 84 S. Ct. 1509, 12 L. ed. 2d 723 (1964). We affirm.

On the morning of Saturday, August 7, 1971, a woman motorist stopped two St. Paul police…