Then he started setting up houses with legal indoor grow rooms and placing cameras inside. SWAT would come soon after and be surprised with “smile you're on camera” signs. Some of the warrants even supposedly had “confidential informants” saying they testified about pot growing. He basically proved the informants were made up and cops were doing illegal random searches with imaging equipment.
Soon after, he was arrested many times under suspicious circumstances. He was never found guilty but stopped making the videos...
Turns out it's a bogus ATF raid. Okay. No more survivors. And Henry Bowman goes to war.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist (no slight intended given your background) or even a legal scholar to understand that if the judge doesn’t have the identity of the “confidential witness”, then the essential constitutional probable cause might be based on nothing more than neighborhood gossip or a rogue law enforcement agency.
In a sane process, any judge who actually honored the 4th A. would require, under seal, the witness's identity confirmed with drivers license, perhaps finger prints, etc.
Of course, without a bona fide witness, there would be no supporting "testimony", no probable cause and citizens as here would suffer from fewer unreasonable searches (with taxpayers picking up the bill).
If the testimony was bogus (as could be easily proven in cases such as this), it might have been given out of spite or obtained via police coercion and could be subsequently handled accordingly (expose the witness to criminal and civil liability, or clean up the agency).
Back in the sixties a couple of friends got word to one of our little small town cops that some guy had some LSD. The cop went after the guy and found a pill in his pocket. He sent it off to the state lab for testing and thought he was going to be hired by the FBI after this big bust. It came back a birth control pill.