United States v. Grant Manaku

facts, the FBI obtained a search warrant for the Dela Cruz residence from a federal magistrate judge.

When FBI agents executed the search warrant, they first met at an off-site location for briefing, and each reviewed and signed a copy of the five-page warrant. A SWAT team secured the residence, and the search followed. During the near six-hour search, Ms. Dela Cruz asked three or four times to see the warrant but was not given any paperwork until the search ended. Her husband, a retired law enforcement officer, arrived home at one point and also asked to see the warrant. He was briefly shown the warrant’s first page but never given a copy. He told the agents to make sure to leave a copy of the warrant or to give one to his wife.

UNITED STATES V. MANAKU

Agent Sherwin Chang was supposed to ensure that both the warrant and a property receipt were left at the residence or with someone at the residence. Chang prepared the property receipt that listed every item that had been seized, and at the end of the search, he reviewed that document with Ms. Dela Cruz. He left her what turned out to be an incomplete copy of the search warrant, with only the…