Law enforcement officers have a search warrant to search a


Law enforcement officers have a search warrant to search a house for heroin and to search the person of the house owners' 18-year-old daughter. When the officers arrive at the house to execute the warrant, the following persons are present:

a. the owners;

b. their 18-year-old daughter;

c. their 15-year-old son, who appears extremely nervous;

d. the daughter's boyfriend, whom the officers recognize as a local gang member who is known to carry a knife; and

e. an unidentified elderly couple.

To what extent may the officers search or detain each person present?

Does a warrant to search a house authorize a search of a tent set up on the premises near the house? Does a warrant authorizing the seizure of stolen computers authorize the seizure of non-stolen computers commingled with them? Is the seizure of an entire book of accounts permissible when only two or three pages of the book are relevant to the specifications of the search warrant?

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