{"id":1971,"date":"2008-04-11T20:49:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T18:07:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T18:07:50","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1971","title":{"rendered":"Blog: Grits for Breakfast: Search warrants for polygamist compound may be invalid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com\/\">Grits for Breakfast<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/search-warrants-for-polygamist-compound.html\">Search warrants for polygamist compound may be invalid<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The blog links to the Salt Lake Tribune: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/ci_8847459\">FLDS retorts: Raid violated the sect&#8217;s rights<\/a>. The pdf of the petition that led to the raid is <a href=\"http:\/\/extras.mnginteractive.com\/live\/media\/site297\/2008\/0408\/20080408_033754_FLDS_Affidavit.pdf\">here<\/a>. A hearing was set for today.  The &#8220;warrant&#8221; authorizes search of what it describes as an entire &#8220;city&#8221; of hundreds of people.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The men say it is &#8220;impossible&#8221; that the sealed affidavit that triggered the investigation at the ranch listed sufficient evidence to search &#8220;each and every residence, structure, school, vehicle, place of business, other facility.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The filing describes the ranch as an &#8220;unincorporated city or neighborhood of 300 to 400 residents&#8221; that includes single and multiple family homes, a doctor&#8217;s office, a cheese manufacturing plant, a cement plant and other buildings spread over 1,691 acres. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like the quintessential general warrant for a wholesale search. One can hypothethically conjure up a potential scenario to authorize a search that broad. Whether it can be justified in court is another matter. And, as posed by Grits for Breakfast, what about the kids taken?  You can&#8217;t suppress witnesses (<a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;vol=371&amp;invol=471\"><em>Ceccolini<\/em><\/a>), but what about their return to the compound?  <\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this plays out.<\/p>\n<p>(A hat tip to Scott Henson of Grits for Breakfast.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1971\">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-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}