Chapter 5 (Case Law)

Question 1

Informants

Answer 1

• Draper v. U.S. involved a federal narcotic agent, with a history of consistency and reliability, informing a police officer that a man named Draper was in Denver and peddling narcotics to several addicts. He gave thorough details of the description of the suspect. The police officer found someone who matched Draper’s description, arrested him, and found that he had drugs. The information given by the informant was enough to form probable cause
• Allison v. State showed that a non-professional informant to an eyewitness to a crime is enough to support probable cause even without specific corroboration of reliability

Question 2

Minor Offenses

Answer 2

Atwater v. City of Lago Vista

Hedgpeth v. Washington Metro Area Transit