![]() ![]() ![]() Of course agents can’t use private citizens to do anything that the agents couldn’t legally do themselves. For example, agents might want to bring a car jacking victim to the scene of a search to help the agents identify that person’s particular stolen property. Private citizens can also help the Federal agent as long as the private citizens are serving a legitimate investigative function. State and Local officers can help the feds, even if the state and local are working outside their jurisdiction to do that, as long as the Federal Agent remains in charge of the execution of the search. Jenna: Title 18 of the United States Code section 3105 says that Federal Agents can execute warrants. ![]() Tim: And, I wish I had a dollar for every time you said reasonable. Jenna: Well in short the 4th Amendment tells us it has to be executed reasonably. Let’s assume this, the agent has a warrant how should the warrant be executed? And of course it is supported by probable cause. Tim: Hi, this is Jenna and Tim, we’re back we’ve talked about, Probable Cause and Warrants, Probable Cause of course is a reasonable belief that evidence of a crime will be located in a place to be searched and Jenna you’ve also told me what a warrant is essentially judicial permission, I guess, to search a particular place. ![]()
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