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The Supreme Court overturned the ruling of the Illinois courts. Justice William Rehnquist delivered the decision in favor of the State of Illinois. Justice Rehnquist stated: We agree with the Illinois Supreme Court that an informant's "veracity," "reliability" and "basis of knowledge" are all highly relevant in determining the value of his report.
Its lawsuit was thrown out of the United States District Court for the Central District of California on summary judgment, June 3, 2002. [ 3 ] The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed summary judgment for the most part, [ 4 ] and the Supreme Court granted certiorari .
The Supreme Court abandoned the Aguilar–Spinelli test in Illinois v. Gates , 462 U.S. 213 (1983), in favor of a rule that evaluates the reliability of the information under the " totality of the circumstances ."
The defendants then filed a petition under the Illinois Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. ch. 38 §§ 826–832), under which only questions arising under the State or Federal Constitution could be raised, to obtain a certified copy of the entire record for their appeal, alleging that there were manifest nonconstitutional errors in the trial that entitled them to have their ...
In 1974, the California Supreme Court ordered the legislature to create the discovery system, ending the state's experiment with judicial discovery rule-making. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 1970, the United States Supreme Court first set down principles in terms of the constitutionality of discovery rules.
The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld the state's ban on the sale or possession of the type of semiautomatic weapons used in hundreds of mass killings nationally. In a 4-3 decision Friday, the ...
The Supreme Court noted that in determining whether a state tax falls within the confines of the Due Process Clause, the North Dakota Supreme Court had said that due to rulings that were made after Bellas Hess, such as Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady, the "relevant inquiry under the latter test was whether 'the state has provided some ...
Smith, [3] and Smith v. Collin. [4] The Supreme Court ruled 5–4, per curiam. [5] [6] The Supreme Court's 1977 ruling granted certiorari and reversed and remanded the Illinois Supreme Court's denial to lift the lower court's injunction on the NSPA's march. [7]