Perkins v. State

Pope, Presiding Judge.

After his motion to suppress evidence seized in a search of his home was denied, defendant David Perkins was convicted of manufacturing marijuana in Fannin County. On appeal, defendant asserts that the evidence should have been suppressed because the officer who obtained the search warrant (a) withheld information relevant to the confidential informant’s (“Cl’s”) reliability from the magistrate, and (b) relied in part on information he had obtained in an earlier, warrantless search. Concluding that probable cause for the search warrant existed regardless of the Cl’s…