• Gerudo@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    To my knowledge, a signed judicial warrant does grant them access to enter their property, but I don’t know if that means all property or just the home of who is getting served the warrant.

    If anything, I would think then this family could have been legally charged with harboring a fugitive, but I’m unsure if that gives authorities the right to bust down any door to get to them.

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      5 hours ago

      From what i understand the warrant has to be specific. It would need their address.

      If it was the home address of the target, but not the address of the person’s house they ran into, i think it’s useless, other than to at least prove to the person there is a legitimate warrant out for them, which could change their behaviour.

      Like if someone had a judicial warrant for them, but not with my address on it, I’d probably act differently than if they didn’t have one at all.

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      But wouldn’t the “easy” thing in that case be to just fuck off, go to her house in the middle of the night, and arrest her there with the warrent, instead of wasting time like this?

      I mean, if they have a warrent they’re bound to know who she is, and I doubt this door dasher is some criminal mastermind who is going to fake their death and disappear completely during the next few hours.