search warrant
noun
: a warrant authorizing a search (as of a house) for stolen goods or unlawful possessions
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In August 2021, agents executed search warrants at the Downtown apartment and his Circle Drive home in Fairfield.
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Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
Around the same time, Paxton’s officers executed search warrants against Democratic organizers and a candidate in a key South Texas race and sued the state’s biggest urban counties over their voter registration drives.
—Saul Elbein, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2024
Advertisement In an attempt to track his whereabouts, Los Angeles Police Department detectives served a search warrant on the contractor that operates Warren’s GPS monitor.
—Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
Getty Images Cutler was taken to a local hospital where a blood sample was obtained through a blood search warrant, the spokesperson confirmed to CBS News.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2024
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Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
Around the same time, Paxton’s officers executed search warrants against Democratic organizers and a candidate in a key South Texas race and sued the state’s biggest urban counties over their voter registration drives.
—Saul Elbein, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2024
Advertisement In an attempt to track his whereabouts, Los Angeles Police Department detectives served a search warrant on the contractor that operates Warren’s GPS monitor.
—Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
Getty Images Cutler was taken to a local hospital where a blood sample was obtained through a blood search warrant, the spokesperson confirmed to CBS News.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Search warrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/search%20warrant. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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