Ohio Search Warrant Manual

Book excerpt: 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.