State v. McCoy

ARNOLD, Judge.

The standard for a court reviewing the issuance of a search warrant is “whether there is substantial evidence in the record supporting the magistrate’s decision to issue the warrant.” Massachusetts v. Upton, 466 U.S. 727, 728, 80 L.Ed.2d 721, 724 (1984); see Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 76 L.Ed.2d 527 (1983). North Carolina adopted the “totality of the circumstances” approach for determining the existence of probable cause in State v. Arrington, 311 N.C. 633, 643, 319 S.E.2d 254, 261 (1984). Thus, the task of the issuing judicial officer is to make a common-sense decision…