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Sneak and peak warrants: legal issues regarding surreptitious searches.
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Searches and seizures conducted pursuant to validly authorized and executed search warrants are very common law enforcement practices. The canons regulating such searches and seizures at the federal level are found in the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution(1) and Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.(2)
The Fourth Amendment provides the general requirements that all searches and seizures be reasonable and that all warrants be based on sworn probable cause, particularly describing the place to be searched and the items to be seized. Rule 41 imposes ...
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