25.06.2015 - 12:13 [ Techdirt ]

Narcotics Team ‚Loses‘ $294,000 In Seized Cash Because It Omitted The Location To Be Searched From Its Search Warrant

Mississippi drug warriors had their eye on nearly $300,000 in „forfeited“ funds but threw it all away by issuing one of the most deficient search warrants ever. It‘s not that it was loaded with errors or questionable probable cause assertions. It‘s that it omitted perhaps the single most important element of a search warrant — the location being searched.