Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!udel!ee.udel.edu
From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Forced Entry
Message-ID: <44331@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 91 16:32:03 GMT
References: <3326@igloo.scum.com>
Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu
Organization: University of Delaware
Lines: 19
Nntp-Posting-Host: estelle.ee.udel.edu

In article <3326@igloo.scum.com> learn@igloo.scum.com (Bill HMRP Vajk) writes:
>Another question which has been raised in recent days has to do with the
>"legality" of conducting a search without a signed warrant in hand. The
>referenced handbook defines circumstances under which a search warrant may be
>issued by a magistrate by telephone. 

Actually, these two statements have little to do with each other.  According
to my brother (a State trooper), a common procedure is to write up the warrant,
make a copy, take the copy to (near) the house or whatever while another officer
is getting the judge to sign the original warrant, and then to call the field
officers on the radio after the judge has signed the warrant.  This is evidently
the reason that people talk about "unsigned photocopies of a warrant."  The
warrant is signed: just not the one that *you* get to see.   -- Darren

-- 
--- Darren New --- Grad Student --- CIS --- Univ. of Delaware ---
----- Network Protocols, Graphics, Programming Languages, 
      Formal Description Techniques (esp. Estelle), Coffee, Amigas -----
              =+=+=+ Let GROPE be an N-tuple where ... +=+=+=