Court Opinion

ID: 9463223
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:01:04.583928+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:59.452335
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HUFSTEDLER, Circuit Judge
(dissenting):
I dissent only from that part of the opinion holding that the district court was required to find that the informant’s reliability and the reliability of the information that she gave was sufficiently corroborated to supply probable cause for Jackson’s arrest. Although I disagree with the clearly erroneous standard of review that the majority of this court adopted in United States v. Hart (9th Cir. en banc 1976) 546 F.2d *412798, 804 (Hufstedler, J., dissenting), this panel is bound by the Hart rule. If Hart is to be applied to this situation, as the majority assumes, then I cannot agree that the district court’s decision on the reliability issues can be overturned. The majority opinion simply substitutes its appraisal of the corroborative evidence for the district court’s. Moreover, as the majority acknowledges, the “verified bits did not relate directly to the criminal activity.” Corroboration of innocuous details will not pass the Aguilar-Spinelli test. (Spinelli v. United States (1969) 393 U.S. 410, 89 S.Ct. 584, 21 L.Ed.2d 637; Aguilar v. Texas (1964) 378 U.S. 108, 84 S.Ct. 1509, 12 L.Ed.2d 723; United States v. Larkin (9th Cir. 1974) 510 F.2d 13.)