anonymous tip bore adequate indicia of reliability
How later courts described this case
- anonymous tip bore adequate indicia of reliability
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Brown, J. (dissenting).
The circumstances of this case are controlled in material respects by Commonwealth v. Couture, 407 Mass. 178, 183 , cert, denied, 498 U.S. 951 (1990). Moreover, the “indicia of reliability” of this informer’s tip were no better than that in Commonwealth v. Lyons, 409 Mass. 16, 20 (1990). A bad tip is bad, regardless of whether the contraband involved is a weapon or drugs. No such distinction has been insinuated into the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.