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Search Warrants: Particularity

By Baker Associates

Being subjected to a police search is a harrowing experience. Even if the person who is subjected to the search is completely innocent, it is nerve-racking to have someone sifting through your possessions and looking for any evidence they can find that may lead to your arrest. This is particularly true if the police have already obtained a search warrant, because that generally means that law enforcement was able to provide a magistrate with probable cause to believe that evidence of illegal activity would be found in the home or area that is the subject of the search. The Constitution provides a variety of different protections for persons who are subjected to searches. In fact, the invasion of a person?s right to privacy in their home has been designated by the United States Supreme Court as the primary evil that the Fourth Amendment is meant to prevent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on June 21, 2010 (boomark / email).