Austin v. City of Scottsdale

GORDON, Vice Chief Justice:

At 10:33 p.m. Thursday, May 6, 1976, an anonymous caller telephoned the Scottsdale Police Department and told the dispatcher that she had information that a certain person’s life “might be in danger.” The caller refused to give her name or the source of her information and said she did not know who was to be the perpetrator. However, she identified the potential victim as Jesse Austin, gave his current residence as the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix, and indicated that he was to be released from the hospital at 4:30 p.m. the following day to spend the weekend at…