Is a search warrant valid for the seizure of personal property of a person who has not been identified in the search warrant?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Neulist, 338 N.Y.S.2d 794, 72 Misc.2d 140 (N.Y. Cty. Ct. 1972):
A seizure of that which is not embraced and specifically described in a search warrant, even if relevant to the case, receives no vitality from the warrant. An article of personal property seized under such circumstances is the fruit of a general search and must, therefore, be suppressed. Marron v. United States (supra).
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