What Is a Search Warrant and When Is It Required in Illinois? Combs Waterkotte attorneys Christopher Combs and Joshua Boardman discuss everything you need to know about Illinois sex crime charges, including sexual assault, sexual abuse, rape, and more.
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Interview Transcript
Scott Michael Dunn: What is a search warrant and when is it required in Illinois?
Joshua Boardman: A search warrant is a permission document essentially that’s based on probable cause that something exists, and I’m speaking generally because they are pretty general. I mean, it can be within the classification of sex crimes or drug crimes, gun crimes what have you. But essentially it allows law enforcement to search and investigate these places that are otherwise constitutionally protected like your home, your vehicle, it could be a cellphone or something like that. But it has to be signed off by a judge and then they’ve got to demonstrate to the judge the probable cause finding and then they execute that search warrant at the time of the search.
