Most courts have held that when an ordinary citizen who is a victim or eyewitness provides information
A) officers can assume the citizen is a reliable informant.
B) the reliability of the citizen must be established.
C) the reliability of the citizen is tested by the same rules as for confidential informants engaged in criminal activity.
D) the information must be in a sworn statement before the officer can legally rely on it.
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