Can a search warrant authorizing the seizure of materials that could contain those materials also authorize the search of objects that can contain that materials?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Goberson, 527 F.3d 882 (9th Cir. 2008):
We have long held that a search warrant authorizing the seizure of materials also authorizes the search of objects that could contain those materials. In United States v. Gomez-Soto, officers were conducting a search pursuant to a warrant authorizing the seizure of "[b]ooks, papers, records,
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