Writing Search Warrants TCOLE #3132

Learn the latest Texas and Federal law regarding search warrants! Students will learn how to draft a search warrant affidavit by collectively discussing fact based scenarios based on current case law. The instructor will facilitate discussion, lecture on Knock and talk, Knock and announce, The Fourth Amendment as applied to search warrants; probable cause, and hands-on experience in writing search warrant affidavits and constructing search warrants and returns. Class exercises include a fact pattern for which each attendee writes a search warrant affidavit and submits it to the instructors for constructive critique. A flash drive containing handouts with current law, templates for search warrant documents, and reminders of the subject matter covered is provided to each attendee.

Your Instructor, Ted Wilson is a retired Assistant District Attorney with 35 years of service. He concluded his career as the Chief of the Special Crimes Bureau, where he worked closely with law…