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If address is wrong on a search warrant is the search warrant still valid?

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No, not unless the error was found and corrected by the issuing judge or magistrate BEFORE the warrant was executed. If the warrant was served at the wrong address, anything found and seized could be excluded as evidence.

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Melinda

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