![]() Jenna: You know the Supreme Court has considered that issues expressly and held that media ride along programs don’t serve any legitimate investigate purpose. How about these media ride along programs? Now importantly what the 4th Amendment does not allow in terms of bringing someone else along for the search is for the agents to bring private party to the site of the search just so they can tag along for some private purpose or to satisfy their own curiosity. 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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