Am 11. Feb, 2001 schwäzte CIE-Keith so:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Todd Hought <thought@scudder-enterprises.com>
> > It's like a search warrant, if the cops have a search warrant for
> 50lbs of
> > pot, and they find a bunch of illegal firearms in your house as
> well, they
> > don't count. Warrants are specific that way...
I thought they include an "anything else illegal" clause nowadays? Maybe
that was just 80's TV (last time I watched TV).
> If the warrant is executed in a reasonable manner and while searching
> for that 50lbs of pot they find a box of illegal guns the police can
> charge you with that too. Search warrants are tricky. If they are
> looking for a car that has not been chopped and they look in your desk
> drawer and find a sawed off shotgun that more than likely will not
> pass the test of the "elephant in a shoe box" test. In other words if
> looking for an elephant don't look in a shoe box, it is not reasonable
> to expect to find the elephant in the shoebox. Now if the warrant
> said I was also looking for a letter you had written about wanting to
> sell the elephant, looking in the show box is reasonable because the
> letter could be in there. If I find a sawed off shotgun You will be
> charged with that too.
I think this has more to do the reasonable cause stuff where they don't
need a search warrant.
ciao,
der.hans
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