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Just how easy is it to obtain a search warrant?
If the police want to get a warrant to search someone's home, tap their phone or something, how easy is it in practice for them to get one? Is it just a matter of saying "we think this guy's up to something" or do they already have to have evidence that something is going on?
12 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Officers don't need proof, only probable cause to issue a search warrant. Suspicion as you have mentioned is not cause for a warrant to be issued. However there are certain situation where a warrant isn't needed.. such situations like an officer was pursuing a suspect that ran into your home, or they saw you walking into your house with a bag full of dope, which gives the officer the right to act in order to keep you from destroy the evidence. In most larger cities it's just phone call away for the warrant to be signed... in smaller towns it might take longer.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
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- ?Lv 45 years ago
You can get an attorney, however if your brother appears and simply testifies that they are his, that he lost them and presents his prescription, and your mother testifies to putting them in the box with the child's belongings, the matter will be quickly closed. There testimony will 1) Establish a legal possession 2) Determine that you had no knowledge of their existence 3) That you were unlikely to inspect the content of the boxes in your (then) present state of mind. When you say trial date.. you have already entered a plea? If not, then the 30th is simply a hearing, not a trial. If so, and if the DA has been made aware of these three items then why would he/she pursue such a weak case. I there something else? If this is actually a trial, pick an attorney and have them talk to the DA for you (you can not unless you are representing yourself). . .
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
Very easy with the Patriot Act,
mere suspicion alone is enough to warrant issuing a search warrant.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
A search warrant is base on probable cause. For instance, a reliable informant tells me that you are selling drugs out of your house. I arrange for him to make a controlled buy. He makes the buy. I take that information to the judge in the form of an affidavit that lists your name, your address, where I got the information, that a controlled buy was made, and that the drugs are real and illegally possessed. That is my probable cause for the search of your home for more drugs.
Let's say your neighbor calls me and tells me you are selling drugs. He is not a "reliable informant", his word is not enough. I can start an investigation. I can watch your home, photograph the people coming and going, and record license numbers of the vehicles coming and going. I find that most of the people and cars at you home belong to drug users. I write up another affidavit listing the drug users at your home and their frequent visits which is typical of a drug house. There's my probable cause again.
I can not get a search warrant based on your membership in the local motorcycle gang. Or that you are Mexican, and therefore must be a member of a drug cartel. Or that you are black, living in an upscale neighborhood, and therefore must be a crime kingpin.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
the police can get a search warrent for anything. that's not the issue. The problem is when an ordinary CITIZEN gets a search warrent. I've figured out a way around the law. I've gotten judges to sign search warrent authorizations and I'm just some busboy at Denny's. I've found all sorts of evidence at the houses I've been in.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
Wow, thanks! Just what I was searching for. I tried looking for the answer on other websites but I couldn't find them.