Opinion ID: 1285680
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Heading: Paragraph Nine of the Affidavit

Text: Our holding above also disposes of defendant's claim that paragraph nine of the affidavit was deceptive and misled the district judge into erroneously granting the search warrant. [1] The affidavit here was clearly sufficient for a finding of probable cause without resort to use of paragraph nine as verification of the informer's tip or as an indicia of informer reliability. Even if we had found that paragraph nine was necessary for a finding of probable cause, we have previously stated that ... if the facts contained in an affidavit taken together with all reasonable inferences from those facts, support the existence of probable cause ... this court (is) constrained to uphold that finding by a district judge even though other inferences from the facts might point to an opposite conclusion. Austria, supra at 568, 524 P.2d at 293. Finally, this court is not in any way willing to attempt a reading of the district judge's mind with regard to paragraph nine, nor are we willing to impart a deceptive motive to Officer Tagomori. The language of paragraph nine is unambiguous, and defendant's interpretation strains our credulity.