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Obtaining a warrant to search a house typically takes a few hours to a few days, depending on the circumstances and the availability of a judge to review the request.

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Is it legal to obtain a search warrant of a friends house he does not live at for drugs?

First, you cannot obtain a search warrant. Police and prosecutors can, but only if they have enough evidence that there has been a crime, and that searching might solve it. Search warrants must be issued by judges.


If the police obtain a search warrant to seach a home and they do not find anything pertaining to the warrant when they search the home can they still seize items.?

Absolutely not. They can only confiscate the types of items outlined in the search warrant, as long as nothing else criminally possessed was found while searching the house.


If you are not the owner of the house you live in does the owner's name have to be on the search warrant?

No, a search warrant is issued for the search of a residence or building.


A search warrant was issued to your friend house and your truck was there can it be search?

No, because the warrant is for the house and house only. Although police officers would probably still search the vehicle, only to use the warrant as an excuse for an illegal contraband hunt.


What legal document permitting searches?

house search is the answer


Can police search your house when you have a warrant for your arrest?

yes


When is a search illegal?

When they don't have a warrant for whatever they search ( even if they do have a warrant, it is usually for one piece of property house, shed, etc.)


Is search warrant valid if the house search and frincked with illegal drugs is not your residence address?

Yes, if the warrant specifies that home or location.


Do the time the search warrant is obtain have to be on the warrant?

No. It's not the police's job to show you the warrant as long as they have a valid one. By the time they leave your house you will have one posted on your door or given to you personally. As long as its it's a valid warrant i.e. at the department just authorized its ok. Your entitled to a copy of it which you will get during the search if it is not already present at the time of the search. When the enter your house at that specific time if any officer has a warrant its valid. If they enter your house in the process of getting a warrant under the assumption that they will receive one its invalid. Actually having the warrant at the scene during the time of entry is not required.


How do you use search warrant in a sentence?

The police got a search warrent in order to search the suspect's house. The suspect would not allow the police to search his home without a search warrant.


Would a search warrant for a house authorize a search of a tent set up on the premises near the house?

The judge may have written the scope of the warrant broadly or narrowly. You would have to read the text of the warrant to know for sure.


What is the purpose of a search warrant?

Only the police can apply for a search warrant, and only a judge can approve of the search warrant. The police only apply for search warrants when they have reasonable suspicion that their suspect is hiding something illegal in his/her house.