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STATE v. STEVENS

989 S.W.2d 290 (1999)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. Gerald Robert STEVENS, Laurie Ann Williams and James Darren Brothers, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

February 1, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Hornik, Nashville, for Appellants, Stevens & Williams.

Eric D. Kinsolving, Old Hickory, for Appellant, Brothers.

John Knox Walkup, Attorney General and Reporter, Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General, Kathy Morante, Deputy Attorney General, Nashville, Robert G. Radford, District Attorney General, Nashville (At Trial), Vicki Snyder, Assistant District Attorney General, Huntingdon (At Trial), for Appellee.

OPINION

ANDERSON, C.J.

We granted this appeal to determine whether a conclusory allegation in an affidavit that information was provided by a "concerned citizen source" is sufficient to establish the presumptive reliability of the information for the issuance of a search warrant under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, § 7 of the Tennessee Constitution.1

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