What is the scope of a search warrant for a storeroom in a house where a party is not named in the warrant?
The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Canestri, 518 F.2d 269 (2nd Cir. 1975):
The warrant directed that the entire house be searched. As the district court noted, to exclude the storeroom from the scope of the warrant "on the facts of this case, would be to suggest that the purposes of a search warrant could be frustrated by the mere declaration of the owner of a one-family residence that one of the rooms therein 'belongs' to a party not named in the warrant." 376 F.Supp. at 1153. Such a result would clearly be inappropriate. See United States v. Jordan, 349 F.2d 107, 109 (6th Cir. 1965); Walker v. United States, 117 U.S.App.D.C.
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