Alpo Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 I'm watching the cop show. The cop is undercover in the mob. He sneaks into the mob boss's bedroom and gets in the safe and steals an important piece of evidence. Then when all the other cops come in and arrest all the mobsters, the boss announces that he has the best lawyer in town, and he is going to walk. And the cop pulls out the valuable piece of evidence and says "not when I show them this". Now if the cop was not undercover, and they wanted to search the mobster's house for this important piece of evidence, they would need a search warrant. So says the Fourth Amendment. But - at least on TV cop shows - they don't need any warrant when they're searching when they are undercover. How does that work? I was thinking that possibly they get the warrant before they send the guy undercover. Then they would have a warrant which would cover their search. But I thought they had to serve the warrant when they did the search, and he's not serving a warrant he's basically burglarizing the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Sealed warrant/Sneak and Peak? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 @Alpo, https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/privacy-and-police-undercover-work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Fruit of a poisoned tree - search the term. Shows are just that, entertainment. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Very few exceptions to the need for a warrant. Being undercover isn't one of them. Being in a TV show is. 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashknife Cowboy Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 The Cop will need a good lawyer, very bad search. Besides I never knew of a undercover officer who actually served a search warrant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Joker Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Undercover does the humint work so the warrant can be written to FIND the evidence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 2 hours ago, Hashknife Cowboy said: The Cop will need a good lawyer, very bad search. Besides I never knew of a undercover officer who actually served a search warrant. They're usually the one wearing the black balaclava during the raid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrus Cassidy #45437 Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 3 hours ago, LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L said: Very few exceptions to the need for a warrant. Being undercover isn't one of them. Being in a TV show is. ^^^^ This ^^^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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