Reasons the U

question 33

Multiple Choice

Reasons the U.S. Supreme Court put into effect the totality of the circumstances test for assessing informant information based on the Illinois v. Gates (1983) decision include _____.

• A) the Aguilar-Spinelli criteria were so flexible as to be nonsensical
• B) the fluidity of the concept of probable cause
• C) Aguilar-Spinelli made it too easy to obtain a search warrant
• D) the need decision factors that could be used is all cases

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