I need a SWAT team to serve a search (and possibly arrest) warrant on the wrong house as part of my story. Actually, I'm not sure if it should be a legit raid, just on the wrong house, or a raid executed on the correct address, with a warrant, but with really weak or insufficient justification for the warrant. It is drug related.
The key thing is either the warrant is on the wrong address entirely, or it is on the correct address, but the people are not involved in any criminal activity.
What are the accepted "best practices" for obtaining a search warrant on a residence, especially one that involves a dynamic entry?
How could those practices "go bad" to allow a warrant when some third party looking at it afterwards (like an attorney or a different judge) would say, "They got a warrant based on that?" (I'm talking about the right address/innocent people scenario here).
If I go the other route, and the warrant and justification are legit, but they do a dynamic entry on the wrong address (house), how would things break down for that to happen? Aren't there supposed to be some sort of safeguards, survellience, etc, to ensure they have the correct address?
One last thought: I've been thinking the reasoning for the warrant would be drug related, especially if I go the "right address/no real crime" route. Would it make more sense to justify a SWAT team though if they are going after someone with a history of violence/wanted for murder/etc? I could work that in, especially if I go with the "wrong address" idea.
What I really need though is an idea of why "best practices" can go wrong to allow other scenario to happen.
The key thing is either the warrant is on the wrong address entirely, or it is on the correct address, but the people are not involved in any criminal activity.
What are the accepted "best practices" for obtaining a search warrant on a residence, especially one that involves a dynamic entry?
How could those practices "go bad" to allow a warrant when some third party looking at it afterwards (like an attorney or a different judge) would say, "They got a warrant based on that?" (I'm talking about the right address/innocent people scenario here).
If I go the other route, and the warrant and justification are legit, but they do a dynamic entry on the wrong address (house), how would things break down for that to happen? Aren't there supposed to be some sort of safeguards, survellience, etc, to ensure they have the correct address?
One last thought: I've been thinking the reasoning for the warrant would be drug related, especially if I go the "right address/no real crime" route. Would it make more sense to justify a SWAT team though if they are going after someone with a history of violence/wanted for murder/etc? I could work that in, especially if I go with the "wrong address" idea.
What I really need though is an idea of why "best practices" can go wrong to allow other scenario to happen.
