Can officers serve arrest warrant at 3rd party's home?

The Search & Seizure Show by Anthony Bandiero

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Hey guys, it's Anthony Bandiero here with blue to gold law enforcement training. I want to share another question I got from a student in New Orleans. I'm about to head back to the airport. But this is a question that is excellent because it does come up quite often. The question is, if officers have an arrest warrant, can they serve it at a third party's home? Not just the suspect's home or where they live?

And the answer is no. The reason is, is that this is called the steagle rule. What the US Supreme Court says is that the an arrest warrant gives you essentially automatic authority to search for that suspect that fugitive at their domicile, that is that level of intrusion is included with the arrest warrant. So when a judge signs  ... 

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