A facially defective warrant amounts to no warrant at all.

This follows up on my April 24 and 25 discussions of searches and search warrants. In 2004, the Supreme Court (1) confirmed that a facially invalid search warrant means the search was warrantless and (2) applied the same standard as would be applied where a warrant had never been sought nor obtained in the first place (in this instance, the Supreme Court invalidated the real property search conducted pursuant to this facially invalid warrant). Groh v. Ramirez, 540 U.S. 551, 563 (2004)...

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