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STATE v. SIMPSON

968 S.W.2d 776 (1998)

STATE of Tennessee, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Grapel SIMPSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

February 23, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Knox Walkup, Attorney General and Reporter, Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General, Kenneth W. Rucker, Assistant Attorney General, Nashville, Elizabeth T. Rice, District Attorney General, Somerville, Ed McDanie, Assistant District Attorney General, Selmer, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Lloyd R. Tatum, Tatum & Tatum, Henderson, for Defendant-Appellant.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

Based on a confidential informant's tip, police stopped the defendant's vehicle. A consensual search of her person revealed drugs. The issue in this appeal is whether the tip, as corroborated by independent police work, exhibited sufficient indicia of reliability to satisfy the two-pronged1 constitutional test of reliability and provide reasonable suspicion to justify the investigatory stop. We...

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