How to Respond to a Search Warrant: Ten Practical Steps
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January 12, 2014How to Respond to a Search Warrant: Ten Practical Steps
1. Remain calm. Make certain to carefully note the time the officers knocked on or kicked in your door.
2. Be calm and courteous with the law enforcement officers.
3. Ask the agents for identification and who is in charge of the search.
4. Ask for your copy of the search warrant and review it carefully. Make certain the search warrant is for your address.
5. Ask to be allowed to contact your lawyer.
6.. Do not give consent to search extra areas without conferring with your attorney. If you have not been allowed to or have been unable to reach your attorney, do not give consent.
7. Do not answer questions from the officers and do not volunteer information.
8. Request that you be given a copy of the inventory, a list of items/objects the officers are taking, before they leave your home or business.
9. If you are told you are being arrested, go quietly and calmly and do not attempt to explain how or why the officers “are making a mistake.”
10. Have a family member, photograph your home or office before they begin straitening up, to document the destruction the officers wreaked upon you and your family or employees.
