{"id":19203,"date":"2015-10-15T07:24:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19203"},"modified":"2015-10-15T07:54:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:54:47","slug":"ca1-a-search-warrant-presented-to-a-magistrate-may-be-modified-before-it-issues-4-yr-delay-in-forensic-analysis-didnt-violate-first-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19203","title":{"rendered":"CA1: A search warrant presented to a magistrate may be modified before it issues; 4 yr delay in forensic analysis didn&#8217;t violate first warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A search warrant presented to a magistrate may be modified before it issues. [After all, isn&#8217;t that the quintessential &#8220;neutral and detached magistrate&#8221; providing truly independent review?] Here, electronics were seized, copied, and returned, and there was a four year delay between the seizure and analysis of what was copied. That was not outside the original warrant. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca1.uscourts.gov\/pdf.opinions\/14-1088P-01A.pdf\">United States v. Peake<\/a>, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 17868 (1st Cir. Oct. 14, 2015):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A draft warrant presented to a magistrate judge may be altered or modified by the judicial officer or at his direction. See United States v. Hang Le-Thy Tran, 433 F.3d 472, 481 (6th Cir. 2006); United States v. Katoa, 379 F.3d 1203, 1208 (10th Cir. 2004); United States v. Arenal, 768 F.2d 263, 267 (8th Cir. 1985). When part of a warrant is considered invalid, &#8220;evidence seized under the valid portion may be admitted.&#8221; United States v. George, 975 F.2d 72, 79 (2d Cir. 1992). Furthermore, when a warrant is limited to authorize the seizure of only certain objects, &#8220;container[s] situated within residential premises which are the subject of a validly-issued warrant may be searched if it is reasonable to believe that the container could conceal items of the kind portrayed in the warrant.&#8221; United States v. Rogers, 521 F.3d 5, 9-10 (1st Cir. 2008).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A search warrant presented to a magistrate may be modified before it issues. [After all, isn&#8217;t that the quintessential &#8220;neutral and detached magistrate&#8221; providing truly independent review?] Here, electronics were seized, copied, and returned, and there was a four year &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warrant-requirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19207,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19203\/revisions\/19207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}