Legal Opinion
United States v. Hernandez-Rodriguez
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 16, 2003No. 02-1238PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.
An anticipatory search warrant is a “warrant which only becomes effective upon the happening of a future event”— often called the “triggering event” — which is, more often than not, the controlled delivery of drugs or other contraband by law enforcement officers. United States v. Hugoboom, 112 F.3d 1081, 1085 (10th Cir.1997). Anticipatory warrants are generally permissible under the Fourth Amendment, but care must be taken to describe the triggering event with sufficient specificity to ensure that any judgment call regarding probable cause is made by a neutral…
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