Court Opinion

ID: 9762630
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:27:35.208008+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:35.996029
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FLAHERTY, Justice,
concurring.
I agree with the majority that there was probable cause to issue a search warrant based upon the information given to police by Ms. Coon. I disagree, however, as I did in Commonwealth v. Miller, 513 Pa. 118, 136-137, 518 A.2d 1187, 1196, (1986) that the Commonwealth may rely in part upon an unnamed police informer to establish probable cause, state that the informer has aided police in prior cases, but then refuse to disclose any of those cases. I would require disclosure of some but not all of the prior cases in which the informer has aided police.
ZAPPALA, J., joins this concurring opinion.