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· 6/18/2013

Patrick Timothy Jeffers v. Commonwealth of Virginia

Citations

  • 62 Va. App. 151
  • 743 S.E.2d 289
  • 2013 WL 2971395
  • 2013 Va. App. LEXIS 184

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • acknowledging “an executing officer must interpret a warrant’s terms reasonably, but the officer need not give them the narrowest possible reasonable interpretation”
  • upholding the constitutionality of a search on the merits and declining to consider an alternative argument that even if the search was unconstitutional, exclusion was not a proper remedy
  • “Police officers executing a particularized search warrant need not read its scope either narrowly or broadly, only reasonably.”

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Judges: Kelsey, From, County, Long

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