SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.
The two major issues in this appeal are the effect of Rakas v. Illinois, ___ U.S. ___, 99 S.Ct. 421, 58 L.Ed.2d 387 (1978) upon standing to raise Fourth Amendment rights and our declination to adopt a per se rule that contingent fee arrangements with informants are invalid.
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In the middle of September, 1977, the Drug Enforcement Administration employed Karl Hobbs as a confidential informant. Shortly thereafter...
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