search warrant
- An official document, issued by a judge, enabling the police to search private property for specific items linked to a crime, based on robust, trustworthy evidence suggesting the occurrence of the crime and the association of the items to it
- Using a search warrant, the police legally seized drugs from the suspect's residence.
- When the police failed to present a search warrant, their retrieved evidence was dismissed in court.
- Obtaining the search warrant required the police to first convince a judge of probable cause.
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