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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