Judge finds no rights violations in FBI seizure Beverly Hills safe-deposit boxes
This seems very strange so maybe the article is leaving something out but if a warrant for X but not Y can still lead to confiscating Y, then what actually limits the power of warrants?<p>> In their warrant request, the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Steve Kim for permission to seize the store’s racks of safe-deposit boxes for forfeiture, but “not their contents.”<p>> The warrant request omitted a central part of the FBI’s plan: permanent confiscation of everything inside any box containing at least $5,000 in cash or goods, a senior FBI agent recently testified.<p>Is the crucial detail that the cash/goods lack any protection under the law? If there was a written and notarized murder confession in a box would that be permissible in court? I <i>thought</i> anything taken/found outside the scope of the warrant would be impermissible. Is the cash now <i>impermissible</i> for prosecuting actual crimes? (i.e. FBI can just keep it and make the owner sue for its return).