State v. McCloskey

KEITH, Justice.

This is another case dealing with the issue of reliance on information provided by an anonymous informant to establish probable cause to obtain a warrant to search a residence believed being used as a drug outlet. The majority of the court of appeals held that the search warrant affidavit failed to support the issuance of the warrant. State v. McCloskey, 451 N.W.2d 225 (Minn.App.1990). The dissent argued that the affidavit was adequate under Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 103 S.Ct. 2317, 76 L.Ed.2d 527, reh’g denied, 463 U.S. 1237, 104 S.Ct. 33, 77 L.Ed.2d 1453 (1983) and…