United States First Circuit

Where a confidential informant is known to the police and has provided reliable information in the past, and the information regarding defendant proves to be extremely accurate, the police could reasonably expect that the critical piece of information, that defendant was committing a crime, was likely to be true as well.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/30/2001
• Published 01/30/2001

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Chief Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jack W. Pirozzolo, with whom Matthew C. Baltay and Foley, Hoag & Eliot, LLP, was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donald C. Lockhart, Assistant U.S. Attorney, with whom Margaret E. Curran, United States Attorney, and Mary E. Rogers, Assistant U.S. Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.