Aрpellee Pamilyn Kennedy Morris was charged with trafficking in cocaine after a search of the apartment where she resided uncoverеd illegal contraband. She moved to suppress the evidence of the search on the basis that the affidavit on which the search warrant was issued was deficient. The trial court granted her motion, and the State appeals. We reverse.
*442 The affidavit in support of the warrant reads as fоllows: “During the week of December 18, 1988, this investigator [Detective C. L. Sasser] met with Confidential Reliable Informant #550 at a prearranged location. The CRI hаs proven reliable in the past by furnishing the Metro Drug Squad with information that has proven to be true and correct. At the prearranged location, the CRI stated that the CRI was familiar with a white female, known to the CRI as Pam Morris who resides at Spanish Villa Apartments, 10611 Abercorn Ext., Apt. 74, Chatham County, Georgia, who is sеlling Cocaine (powder) from said residence. The CRI and The CRI’s vehicle were searched and after finding no money or drugs, the CRI was given $100.00 of Official Chathаm County Funds. . . . This investigator then followed the CRI to Spanish Villa Apartments where the CRI exited his vehicle and walked directly to and entered Apt. 74 at approximately 11:37 AM. At approximately 11:43 AM the CRI exited said residence, entered his vehicle and met this investigator at a prearranged location. At the рrearranged location, the CRI handed me two clear corner plastic bags containing off-white powder that the CRI stated that the CRI purchased from Pam Morris for the consideration of $100.00 of Official Chatham County Funds. The CRI stated that Pam Morris told the CRI that the CRI could come back at anytime to рurchase cocaine. The CRI and the CRTs vehicle were again searched and no money or drugs were found. A field test conducted by this investigator on the off-white powder indicated positive for Cocaine. The CRI described Pam Morris as being a white female, in her late twenties [or] early thirties, with brown hair. . . . Based on the above information, this investigator respectfully requests that a Search Warrant be issued for the residence of Spanish Village Apartments, 10611 Abercorn Ext., Apt. 74, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia.”
On December 21, 1988, the Magistrate’s Court of Chatham County issued a search warrant for the prеmises described above based solely on the information in the affidavit. The warrant was executed on December 30, 1988. During the search of the aрartment a small quantity of contraband was found in Morris’ purse and a larger quantity of contraband was found under the mattress of the bed on which she was sleеping when the officers entered the apartment to execute the warrant. Scales and other drug paraphernalia were also fоund in the apartment.
Following a hearing, the trial court granted Morris’ motion to suppress on the basis that the affidavit on which the search warrant was issuеd was deficient because the alleged CRI had never furnished information upon which arrests and convictions had been obtained, Detective Sasser having only averred that the CRI had furnished information in the past which had been true and correct.
In finding the affidavit in this case to be deficient, the trial сourt
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apparently relied on the test derived from the holdings in
Aguilar v. Texas,
“ ‘The task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, common-sense decisiоn whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the “varacity” [sic] and “basis of knowledge” of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place. And the duty of the reviewing court is simply to insure that the magistrate had a “substantial basis for . . . conclud(ing)” that probable cause existed.’
[Illinois v. Gates,
supra at 238].”
State v. Fultz,
“Utilizing this standard of review, which was adopted by the Georgia Supreme Court in
State v. Stephens,
Moreover, even assuming that the affidavit was insufficient to establish probable cause under the totality of the circumstances test enunciated in
Illinois v. Gates,
supra, “[t]here is the remaining issue of whether the еxclusionary rule would or would not be an appropri
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ate sanction to vindicate any purported violation of [Morris’] Fourth Amendment rights. Because the exclusionary rule is designed to deter police misconduct rather than to punish the errors of issuing magistrates, it has been modified so as not tо bar the admission of evidence seized in reasonable, good-faith reliance by an officer on a search warrant that is subsequently held to bе defective.
United States v. Leon,
“The evidence recorded in the suppression hearing regarding the contents of the affidavit shows, as a matter of law, that it was not so lacking in its indicia of probable cause as to render the judge’s belief in the existence of probable cause entirely unrеasonable. Accordingly, assuming arguendo that probable cause had not in fact existed for the issuance of the search warrant, we are satisfied under the totality of the circumstances that the officers executing the search warrant acted in reasonable good faith reliance thereon within the meaning of
United States v. Leon,
Judgment reversed.