Search Warrants in State Detention Facilities

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1. What is the usual purpose of the routine jail-guard search distinguished in the January 26, 2021 main opinion?
2. Are trial judges absolutely prohibited from issuing search warrants to be implemented in government detention facilitie…
3. What factor is central to distinguishing the two kinds of prison searches discussed by the Court?
4. Outside investigators seek evidence of a specific offense in one inmate’s cell and do not supervise the facility. May t…
5. A warden argues that because routine protective searches may proceed without a probable-cause finding, an outside team …
6. Outside investigators allege collusion between certain inmates and custodial staff. They seek a narrowly described warr…
7. A police team with no custodial role plans to search a named cell for evidence of a particular offense. It calls the op…
8. Distinguish routine custodial searches from investigative searches by law enforcers outside the detention facility’s ma…
9. Why may a judge issue a proper search warrant for a state detention facility despite the facility’s government control?
10. Explain why allegations that custodial staff protect contraband neither automatically defeat an outside warrant applica…
11. In an outside investigative warrant application for a jail cell, does government ownership of the building dispense wit…
12. Must the judge personally determine probable cause for the outside investigative jail-search warrant?