Obtaining a Search Warrant after Charges Have Been Brought

Published for NC Criminal Law on June 24, 2013.

Most search warrants are obtained before anyone has been charged with a crime. But sometimes officers will charge a defendant and then decide to obtain a search warrant to seek additional evidence. In such a case, may investigators still obtain a search warrant from a magistrate, or does a magistrate  lose jurisdiction over the case ... Read more

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