People v. French

Opinion

SIMONS, J.

A search warrant affidavit contains information from three informants, none of whom are reliable. Each informant states two named *1312individuals are selling drugs from a particular residence and drive a particular vehicle. The affiant officer corroborates those facts and determines that one of the alleged drug dealers has a history of narcotics offenses, but fails to include in the affidavit the dates and any details of those offenses. We conclude that the affidavit was insufficient to establish probable cause to issue the warrant, in part because the police corroboration of the…