So what was that technicality? The cop who filled out the search warrant didn’t specify which unit in a multi-family housing unit was to be searched. Consequently, the cops raided the wrong residence, which caused them to kick down the door and terrorize an innocent family. Someone could have been killed. It’s happened before. Hell, it’s happened before in New York. The requirement that the location on a search warrant be specific isn’t “a technicality.” It’s a core principle of the Fourth Amendment. ... So when a police officer today gets a warrant for a multi-residence building but doesn’t specify which unit is to be searched, and the police then raid multiple units within that building, they haven’t made a minor technical error — they’ve violated one of the founding principles of this country. This is isn’t an exaggeration.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:41:15 +0000
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