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To: rolling_stone

http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/ars/13/03918.htm&Title=13&DocType=ARS

13-3918. Time of execution and return

A. A search warrant shall be executed within five calendar days from its issuance and returned to a magistrate within three court business days after the warrant is executed. Upon expiration of the five day period, the warrant is void unless the time is extended by a magistrate. The time for execution of the warrant may be extended for no longer than five calendar days. The documents and records of the court relating to the search warrant need not be open to the public until the return of the warrant or the warrant is deemed void pursuant to this section unless a magistrate orders the time to be shortened or lengthened for good cause. Thereafter, if the warrant has been executed, the documents and records shall be open to the public as a judicial record.

B. If a duplicate original search warrant has been executed, the peace officer who executed the warrant shall enter the exact time of its execution on its face.


20 posted on 05/18/2011 1:06:38 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: rolling_stone

http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/ars/13/03921.htm&Title=13&DocType=ARS

13-3921. Return of warrant and inventory; copy of inventory

A. The officer shall return the warrant to the magistrate and at the same time deliver to him a written inventory of the property taken. The inventory shall be made publicly, or in the presence of the person from whose possession it was taken, and of the applicant for the warrant, if they are present. The inventory shall be verified by the affidavit of the officer which shall be taken by the magistrate at the time it is delivered to the magistrate. The affidavit shall recite that the inventory contains a true and detailed account of all the property taken.

B. The magistrate shall, if requested, deliver a copy of the inventory to the person from whose possession the property was taken and to the applicant for the warrant.


22 posted on 05/18/2011 1:08:10 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: rolling_stone
Well, from that, it looks like Dupnik is just disregarding the law, which says clearly, "Thereafter, if the warrant has been executed, the documents and records shall be open to the public as a judicial record."

The warrant was executed; and so was a presumed innocent man.

34 posted on 05/18/2011 2:09:21 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican (FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
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