CJUS P300 1st Edition Lecture 18 Outline of Last Lecture 1. Search and Seizure2. Police Entering your House3. Search Warrants Outline of Current Lecture 1. Search and Seizure2. Search Warrants3. Prosecutor’s Office and Police Interaction Current LectureChief of Police Guest Lecture 1. Search and Seizurea. How police officers interact with prosecutors officei. Police are first line in an investigation, forward information to the prosecutor’s office for filing or not filing of chargesb. Burglary Casei. You call the police and take a report about your laptop being stolen ii. They find a shoe print on the door (take it as evidence)1. Suspect also happens to drop his wallet and there’s an ID in it. Now there’s a possible suspectiii. Contact the possible suspect and ask them why their wallet is at that person’s houseiv. May get search warrant to see what kind of shoes he/she has 1. May get a court order to get fingerprints if they were found at the scene of the crime v. Have evidence the shoe belongs to the suspect. Take all that evidence andput it into a probable cause affidavit to be reviewed by the prosecutor. 1. They decide there is enough probable cause to meet the state definition of burglaryvi. Prosecutor files criminal charges against suspect for burglary These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.c. Police have to go through prosecutors office to get any type of charges against suspects 2. Search Warranta. Usually police work with prosecutors office to put together a search warrant for whatever they are investigating b. There is “Consent to Search” i. When police knock on your door and ask you if they can search your propertyii. You would fill out a form if you consent to the search1. You can stop that consent at any time. You rescind that consent.2. Revoking consent can be seen as probable cause in which case thepolice will stop searching but will get a warrant and lock down the area that they are searching iii. If there is a search warrant, you cannot stop that consent because probable cause has been explained to the judge who has permitted a warrant. c. Search warrant is specific. If they have warrant for large TV, they can’t search your drawers because it is not likely it is there.i. However, they could go into your closet because a large TV can fit thereii. Similarly with a diamond ring, they can search any place a diamond ring could be storedd. Search warrants can be issued telephonically in Monroe countyi. Must record the information and be given to the judgeii. Judge will authorize officer to put their signature on warrant and then it isvalid 3. Prosecutor’s Office and Police Interactiona. The police are not agents of the prosecutor’s officeb. The prosecutor may request that they do further investigation into a specific issue i. Work WITH the prosecutor, not FOR themii. The police want to make sure that they have successful prosecution on crimes that occur c. Both agencies (police and prosecutor) have to work together to move cases forward for prosecutioni.