In what circumstances will a court refuse to grant a motion for return of papers seized during the course of a criminal investigation?
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The following excerpt is from Rodgers v. United States, 158 F. Supp. 670 (S.D. Cal. 1958):
In Weeks v. United States, 1913, 232 U.S. 397, 34 S.Ct. 346, 58 L.Ed. 652, the court commented on the general rule of practice,that the court when engaged in trying a criminal case will not take notice of the manner in which witnesses have possessed themselves of papers, or other articles of personal property, which are material and properly offered in evidence, by saying that this rule would not apply to an application for return of papers seized seasonably made.
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