UNITED STATES v. BENNETT

Cal. No. 1151, Docket 82-1280.

729 F.2d 923 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert L. BENNETT, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 12, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Shaad, Watertown, N.Y., for defendant-appellant.

Paula Ryan Conan, Asst. U.S. Atty., N.D.N.Y., Syracuse, N.Y. (Frederick J. Scullin, U.S. Atty., N.D.N.Y., Syracuse, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before OAKES, VAN GRAAFEILAND and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.


VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

On June 16, 1981, Richard Kelly, a Special Agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, applied to a United States Magistrate in the Northern District of New York for a warrant to search appellant's residence for six unlawfully possessed firearms. Because Kelly was relying upon information received from an informant, he bolstered his affidavit by attaching photographs of a sawed-off shotgun which the informant had taken in...

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