03-06-2025, 06:07 PM
"[t]he proceeding by search warrant is a drastic one, and must be carefully circumscribed so as to prevent unauthorized invasions of the sanctity of a man's home and the privacies of life." Berger v. New York,388 U.S. 41, 58, 87 S.Ct. 1873, 1883, 18 L.Ed.2d 1040 (1967) (quotations and citations omitted).
U.S. v. Jones, 54 F.3d 1285, 1289 (7th Cir. 1995)
"The requirement that warrants shall particularly describe the things to be seized makes general searches under them impossible and prevents the seizure of one thing under a warrant describing another. As to what is to be taken, nothing is to be left to the discretion of the officer executing the warrant." Marron v. United States,275 U.S. 192, 196, 48 S.Ct. 74, 76, 72 L.Ed. 231 (1927). "In practice, courts have therefore demanded that the executing officers be able to identify the things to be seized with reasonable certainty and that the warrant description must be as particular as circumstances permit." United States v. Brown,832 F.2d 991, 996 (7th Cir. 1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 908, 108 S.Ct. 1084, 99 L.Ed.2d 243 (1988).
U.S. v. Jones, 54 F.3d 1285, 1290 (7th Cir. 1995)
U.S. v. Jones, 54 F.3d 1285, 1289 (7th Cir. 1995)
"The requirement that warrants shall particularly describe the things to be seized makes general searches under them impossible and prevents the seizure of one thing under a warrant describing another. As to what is to be taken, nothing is to be left to the discretion of the officer executing the warrant." Marron v. United States,275 U.S. 192, 196, 48 S.Ct. 74, 76, 72 L.Ed. 231 (1927). "In practice, courts have therefore demanded that the executing officers be able to identify the things to be seized with reasonable certainty and that the warrant description must be as particular as circumstances permit." United States v. Brown,832 F.2d 991, 996 (7th Cir. 1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 908, 108 S.Ct. 1084, 99 L.Ed.2d 243 (1988).
U.S. v. Jones, 54 F.3d 1285, 1290 (7th Cir. 1995)