People v. Verches - search warrant on your house?

[PaDanby]

Yeah pretty much.

Interesting. So in general, is it pretty much just "game over" question wise if cops show up to your residence with a search warrant? Should you then comply and show them whatever they demand to see, to minimize damage as in the story you brought up?

Kind of like the advice usually given about getting in to a fight in the gutter. You've reached that point where your lawyer should be fighting in court.

With what they found, it's probably a good assumption that he wasn't some poor random loser picked up on his first ever trip to AZ. I suspect he had been on the radar for a long time and finally did something that allowed for the warrant to be signed sealed and delivered. If it's a good warrant would you rather have everything else in good shape or your whole house in a shambles?

[AbrahamBurden]

Interesting, thanks all for the input.

Yeah, I was wondering what exactly brought attention on this guy to begin with to where he got a warrant on his house rather than just a stop on the way home from Nevada to California. The 20 grand in cash plus the massive quantities of pot (especially prior to legalization for recreational use) probably pointed to how he was already on a ****list.

Still scary though how they can throw a tracking device on your car and use that as evidence in court without a search warrant, though.

[PaDanby]

Putting on a tracking device for a short time and following on public streets and roads where a tail could have followed is likely to survive scrutiny, especially on somebody already on the radar.

Using it on a fishing expedition on a regular joe only because you think he might stop at a sporting goods store in an adjacent state is probably not going to survive judicial review.