548 So. 2d 846 - State v. Weber’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “'[ Where the purpose of the search is to find specific property, it should be so particularly described as to preclude the possibility of seizing any other. On the other hand, if the purpose be to seize, not specified property, but any property of a specified character, which, by reason of its character and of the place where and the cireumstances under which it may be found, if found at all, would be illicit, a description, save as to such character, place, and cireumstances, would be unnee-essary and, ordinarily, impossible; as, for instance, where the search is ordered for dies for the counterfeiting of money, or for opium, or gambling devices, or lottery tickets, or intoxicating liquors, alleged to be held in possession unlawfully, and the same is true though the illegality may consist in the intended use rather than the mere possession of the property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Taylor v. State