totality of the circumstances test
totality-of-the-circumstances test. Criminal procedure. A standard for determining whether hearsay (such as an informant’s tip) is sufficiently reliable to establish probable cause for an arrest or search warrant. • Under this test — which replaced Aguilar–Spinelli’s two-pronged approach — the reliability of the hearsay is weighed by focusing on the entire situation as described in […]
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