*****DIRECTIVE 5.7 Flashcards
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- The determination concerning when a search warrant must be obtained will be based on what.
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- Pertinent legal guidelines and consultation with a supervisor
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SEARCH WARRANTS
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5.7
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- all search warrant applications MUST be submitted to who
2. Why
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- the District Attorney’s Charging Unit (DACU).
2. For review prior to submitting to a judge or bail commissioner.
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- What is the purpose of a search warrant.
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To search and seizure :
1. Contraband , the fruits of a crime, or things otherwise criminally possessed. Or 2. Property which is or has been used as a means of committing a criminal offense. Or 3. Property which constitutes evidence of the commission of a criminal offense.
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- To obtain a search warrant, sworn personnel MUST
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- Have thoroughly investigated a complaint or gathered information as to convince a disinterested party (judge or bail commissioner) that probable cause exists to justify a search
- Consult with his highest ranking supervisor
- Prepare a 75-175.
- Fax completed 75-175 to the DACU for approval
- If declined from DACU, obtain the record of Declination.
- Write DACUs approval in the margin and include the Ada name, date, and time.
- The approved faxed copy returned from DACU will be maintained by the investigator and remain as part of discovery.
- Present the original application and affidavit (and continued if necessary 75-51) to a judge or bail commissioner at arraignment court.
- Make no corrections ,additions , or deletions on any copy of the 75-175 once the judge or bail commissioner has possession of it.
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- After the DACU evaluate the affidavit for a search warrant, where will he note his approval or disapproval.
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- In the margin.
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- When is the record of declination form needed from DACU.
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- If the Ada disapproves or significantly modifies the affidavit.
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- When is the record of declination NOT needed.
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- If the DACU modifications amount only to handwritten notes on the 75-175 for the purposes of strengthening the probable cause aspect of the search warrant.
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- Once the affidavit is possessed by the judge or bail commissioner, the officer may NOT.
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- May NOT make any corrections, additions, or deletions on the copy or make any additional oral additions to it.
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- Search and seizure warrants that have been signed by a judge or bail commissioner will NOT BE
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- VOIDED.
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- What will happen to search warrants that have NOT been served in a specified period of time.
- What is the specified period of time.
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- The will be voided.
2. Two days from the date of issuance.
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- Supplementing a search warrant orally at the time it is signed by a judge or bail commissioner is what
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- NOT acceptable.
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- What is rule 2003 b.
2. What should be done if relevant facts arise while the judge has the affidavit
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- Oral additions will not be admissible at a subsequent suppression hearing.
- The investigator must complete a 75-175, or 75-51 (supplemental) and swear to it .
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- When the offense has already been reported what DC numbers will be used.
- If it hasn’t
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- The original DC numbers
2. Obtain DC numbers from the district of occurrence.
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- What must be specifically described in the search warrant
- Why
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- The premises or person to be searched
And - The items to be seized must be specifically described in the warrant.
- So that the judge or bail commissioner and executing officer have no doubt as to whom or what can be seize and where they may be found.
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- How should the investigator describe a building in a warrant
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- Street name and number (no intersections)
- Where it will take place (vehicle/building)
- Use exact numerical location.
- Number of stories.
- Apartment number
- Type of constructions (brick,wood, etc)
- Single home, apartment, twin structure , etc
- Particular markings
- Color
- Any additional info which serves to identify a particular premise.
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- How should persons be described in a warrant.
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- Name, alias, or nicknames
- Date of birth
- Race
- Sex
- Height
- Weight
- Build
- Hair and eye color
- Tattoo, physical deformities, injuries, and additional info which serves to identify the person.
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- What must the warrant include.
2. What should the warrant include , where applicable
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- Name and/or description of owner, occupant, or possessor of the premise or property to be searched.
- The particular crime that has been or is being committed
- What probable cause exists for a search
- Surveillance gathering
- Reasons for believing that the item or person are located at the premise specified and why they should be the subject of a seizure.
- Facts known to the officer concerning:
A. Potential for destruction of evidence
B. Potential for the removal of evidence, contraband, etc
C. Threats of harm to police personnel should also be clearly
Listed on the warrant. - If a nighttime warrant is needed.
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- What is probable cause
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- The existence of facts and circumstances that would justify a person of reasonable caution to believe:
A. That an offense has been or is being committed
B. That the particular person or item to be seized is reasonably
Connected to the crime, and
C. That the person can be found at a particular place or the item
Can be found in the possession of a particular person or at a
Particular place.
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- The facts and circumstances on a warrant must be what
2. They cannot be what.
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- They must be real
2. They cannot be speculation or a hunch by the officer.
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- If the investigator is requesting a nighttime search warrant, what must he do
- If a nighttime warrant is approved by a judge or bail commissioner, what must they do
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- Explain why the search should be carried out in other then daytime hours.
- Specifically note on the warrant that he is authorizing such a search.
- Sign his name on it.
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- What time is a daytime search warrant served.
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- Between 6:00 AM and 10:00 PM
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- What time is a nighttime search warrant served.
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- Between 10:01 PM and 5:59 AM
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- If an officer wants a nighttime search warrant , what must he state
- What is usually accepted
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- He must state additional probable cause to support such a search.
- Evidence may be moved or destroyed
- The threat of serious bodily injury or death.
- Other exigent circumstances exist.
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- What must the judge or bail commissioner complete on the search warrant affidavit
- What is the JURAT.
- Where is the JURAT located
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- The JURAT.
- The clause located directly under the probable cause, which states when, where , and before whom such affidavit was sworn.
- On the center right of the 75-175
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- As a result the signature and seal of the issuing authority will appear a total of how many times.
- Where
- Or where , if no supplemental is used.
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- Twice
- Once on the bottom section of the 75-175 (affidavit) and once on the JURAT section of the 75-51
- Or twice on the 75-175. If no supplemental is used.
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- When search warrants are based of off information obtained from informants and third parties, what have the federal and state Supreme Court established for assessing the warrant applications
- How will the courts review the affidavits concerning informants
- How will the courts NOT review the affidavits concerning informants
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- The test of the totality of the circumstances.
- The affidavits will be reviewed in their entirety and significance given to each relevant piece of information provided by the informant.
- They will not view them based exclusively on their credibility and reliability of the informant.
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- Since reliability and credibility are significant factors in search warrant applications, when information is based of an informant. What can an officer do to enhance the information from the informant
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- Through an officers independent investigation and observation and additional corroboration of the informants and third party’s information.
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- Why is an officers thorough investigation and analysis important when dealing with informants.
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- Because informants can intentionally give false and misleading information.
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- When dealing with informants and probable cause for a search warrant. Officers should include the following on the warrant to enhance the credability of the informant
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- Documentation of past use of the informant
- Number of times the information provided proved truthful
- Number of times past information led to arrests and convictions
- How often the information has been used.
- Type of investigations in which the informant has previously supplied information
- Whether the informant has admitted his own criminal conduct in the course of supplying the information to police
- Detailed knowledge of the informants personal information
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- When entering enhancing information about an informant on a search warrant. What is the most important information to include.
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- detailed knowledge of the informants personal information such as
A. How, when , where , and form whom the informant obtained the information
B. What informant heard, touched , tasted, smelled, observed.
C. Exactness of locations , descriptions, persons, quantities, dates, times,
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- If dates, times and locations, and statements, must be omitted to protect the informants identity, what must be placed on the warrant. The declaration :
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- The exact information has been withheld to protect the identity of the informant which could be revealed if the suspect were given the information at the time of the search.
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- When must a search warrant be served
- What are daytime hours.
- Unless what
- What are nighttime hours.
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- During daytime hours.
- Between 6:00am and 10:00 pm.
- A nighttime search has been authorized
- Between 10:01pm and 5:59am
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- Within how long must a search warrant be served.
2. Which is.
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- Within a specified period of time.
- Two days from the date of the issuance.
- The judge or bail commissioner may however, designate a lesser period of time for its execution.