U.S. v. MATHIS

No. 02-7138.

357 F.3d 1200 (2004)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Douglas Victor MATHIS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

February 11, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey A. Gallant (Sheldon J. Sperling, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Assistant United States Attorney for the Plaintiff-Appellee.

Eddie Christian, Jr., (Dan George, Sallisaw, Oklahoma with him on the briefs), Fort Smith, Arkansas for the Defendant-Appellant.

Before KELLY, LUCERO, and McKAY, Circuit Judges.


LUCERO, Circuit Judge.

At issue in this case are several claims of error regarding the issuance of a search warrant, which include the sufficiency and reliability of an affidavit containing multiple layers of hearsay as a basis for the search warrant. The district court rejected the defendant's arguments, including that the warrant improperly relied upon unreliable and stale hearsay, and found instead that the magistrate had a substantial basis to find probable cause...

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