The issue focused on whether police who collect informants can get inside the homes of the houseful to buy or sell drugs to buy from them without their knowledge and thus force them to choose between living or being arrested. Law enforcement and criminal justice experts say that a trial court that upheld the law was not guided by the proper guidelines and may have overstepped its bounds.


The Supreme Court has never before ruled that the tip-line system can be used to obtain informants without the informant's knowledge and because of