Walk It Through: The Search Warrant
Probable cause and a particular description, a detailed inventory, and an arrest on a reasonable belief.
Officers come to a house early one morning with a search warrant.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One house and one bag. The drug charge itself, a search without a warrant, and the return to the court are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Search warrantAn order that issues only on probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, particularly describing the place to be searched and the person and thing to be seized, and signed by the judge who issues it.
- Domestic violenceAssault, battery, sexual assault, stalking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, or any crime causing injury or death, by one family or household member against another.