Sierra-Hernandez v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• Justices Stewart and Marshall dissenting from the Court’s denial of writs of certiorari and contending that the Court should resolve the circuit split on this issue[.]
• “We perceive no error in the prosecution’s use of leading questions before the grand jury.”
• J. Stewart and J. Marshall dissenting from denial of certiorari because of a difference among the courts of appeals on the admissibility of grand jury testimony under Rule 804(b)(5)
• “standards of reliability should not prevent appropriate police action when a victim of a crime immediately has contacted the police”
• “Unlike a person who makes an anonymous phone call . .. the informant was in a position to be held accountable for his intervention. The reliability of the information was thus increased.”
• reasonable suspicion established based on anonymous tip corroborated only by observations of innocent details
• denial of petitions for writs of certiorari, Stewart, J. dissenting
• unidentified individual told border patrol agent that a specifically described truck had just loaded with marijuana at a canebrake, agent knew canebrake to have been site of past smuggling activity and found the truck nearby--held sufficient to justify investigatory stop of truck