Substantial basis definition
Substantial basis means contacts which are intended to influence a decision that involves one or more disbursements of state funds in an amount of at least five thousand dollars ($5,000) per year;
Substantial basis in this context means a “fair probability,” given the totality of the circumstances, “that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.” State v. Zanter, 535 N.W.2d 624, 633 (Minn. 1995) (quotations and citations omitted). When we review “the sufficiency of an affidavit under the totality of the circumstances test,” we must not “review each component of the affidavit in isolation.” Albrecht, 465 N.W.2d at 109 (citation omitted). This court’s standard of review, therefore, affords the district court great deference and is not de novo. See Rochefort, 631 N.W.2d at 804-05; State v. McCloskey, 453 N.W.2d 700, 704 (Minn. 1990) (suggesting “that the resolution of marginal cases should be ‘largely determined by the preference to be accorded to warrants’” (quotation omitted)).