The Ohio Search Warrant Manual is an ideal hands-on guide for judges, attorneys, law enforcement personnel & educators. Written by an experienced judge & prosecuting attorney, Albert J. Mestemaker, this softcover manual offers up-to-date forms, examples & practical pointers. Contents include: * Administrative search warrants * Legal basis for the search warrant * Requirements of the affidavit for a search warrant * Executing search warrants & the good faith exception * Inventory of property taken, return of search warrants & sealing of search warrants * Forfeiture of seized property * Electronic surveillance * Blank & completed sample forms for affidavits & warrants * Constitutional provisions, statutes & rules governing searches * Challenging the Warrant.

One of the main challenges encountered by many law enforcement officers when drafting a search warrant is properly describing the person, place, or thing to be searched, and describing the reason for searching for associated evidence. Most law enforcement officers recognize the need to search for and seize common items of contraband such as narcotics and weapons. The search warrant, court order, and affidavit templates in this book include: -Incorporating Information into the Affidavit and Search Warrant-From Crime Report, Witnesses, Informants, and Citizen Informants -Dominion and Control Evidence-Authorization for Videotaping and Photographing and Forensic Examination and Measurements -Locations-Single Family Residences, Apartments, Rural Location, and Stores or Businesses -And much more...

This text is a functional and sensible guide to understanding the complicated laws of search and seizure. Rutledge discusses the latest law and court decisions and tells readers how to apply legal rules to the real world of everyday policing. The text covers exclusionary rules, twenty-seven search warrant exceptions, search warrant applications (service and return), report writing, saving a case from error, testifying at the suppression hearing, and more!

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.