STATE v. RAVEYDTS

No. 23154.

691 N.W.2d 290 (2005)

2004 SD 134

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Kelli Joy RAVEYDTS, Santana Jean Hansen, and Robert James Nicholson, Defendants and Appellees.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided December 22, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence E. Long, Attorney General, Gary Campbell, Assistant Attorney General, Pierre, South Dakota, Attorneys for plaintiff and appellant.

Lynn A. Moran, Custer, South Dakota, Attorney for appellee Raveydts.

Chris M. Beesley, Custer, South Dakota, Attorney for appellee Hansen.

Matthew L. Skinner, Rapid City, South Dakota, Attorney for appellee Nicholson.


KONENKAMP, Justice.

[¶1.] In this appeal, we confront the question of what amount of independent police corroboration is sufficient, when combined with information received from anonymous informants, to establish probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant. Two anonymous callers detailed to a deputy sheriff what they believed to be drug-dealing activity they saw occurring at their apartment building. They provided license plate numbers of persons coming...

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