{"id":4583,"date":"2011-07-10T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T07:02:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T07:02:46","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4583","title":{"rendered":"TN: Judge&#8217;s error (pm v. am) voided warrant because it was not a minor error under TN law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge\u2019s scrivener\u2019s error of writing \u201cp.m.\u201d instead of \u201ca.m.\u201d voided the warrant. The requirements of state Rule 41 serve a high and important function in protecting against abuse of search warrants. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/OPINIONS\/TCCA\/PDF\/103\/State%20vs%20Joshua%20Shane%20Hayes.pdf\">State v. Hayes<\/a>, 337 S.W.3d 235 (Tenn. Crim. App. 2010):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With respect to Rule 41(c), in State v. Coffee, 54 S.W.3d 231, 233-34 (Tenn. 2001), the Tennessee Supreme Court reviewed the applicable law:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These procedural safeguards are intended \u201cto secure the citizen against carelessness and abuse in the issuance and execution of search warrants.\u201d Talley v. State, 208 Tenn. 275, 345 S.W.2d 867, 869 (1961).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere is no writ more calculated to be abused in its use than the search warrant, for with it any home may be entered and the inmates disturbed, humiliated, and degraded. To prevent such a possibility from false informants made to officers inspired by overzeal, or acting from expediency, or obeying the command uttered by a mob impulse, the provisions of the Constitution and statutes found force and command observance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Id. (quoting Hampton v. State, 148 Tenn. 155, 252 S.W. 1007, 1008 (1923)). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4583\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}