Professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich

Professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich recently published “‘Sneak and Peek’ Searches: Critique and Reform,” in Volume 42 of the Search and Seizure Law Report. Search and Seizure Law Report is a legal periodical targeted at judges and practitioners, and focuses on constitutional policing issues under the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. In the article, Professor Witmer-Rich explains some of the serious flaws in the current statute, passed as part of the USA PATRIOT Act, that authorizes covert searches and seizures with delayed notice search warrants. He then proposes several amendments to the statutory scheme that would better regulate delayed notice searching.