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What will be an ideal response?
Student responses should include that the Court adopted a “totality of the circumstances” approach instead of the two-prong approach developed in Aguilar; the Aguilar-Spinelli test requires that both prongs of the test be established and that tips from anonymous informants may not always easily satisfy both prongs; and that the entire process of following the test had become too technical and demanding.
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What will be an ideal response?
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