AGUILAR–SPINELLI TEST

Aguilar–Spinelli test (ah-gee-lahr spi-nel-ee orag-w[schwa]-lahr).Criminal procedure. A standard for de-termining whether hearsay (such as an informant’s tip) is sufficiently reliable to establish probable cause for an arrest or search warrant. • Under this two-pronged test — which has been replaced by a broader, totali-ty-of-the-circumstances approach — the reliability of both the information and the informant