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Florida Statute 933.11 - Full Text and Legal Analysis Florida Statute 933.11 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research
Fla. Stat. § 933.11 (2026) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Amendments
933.11 Duplicate to be delivered when warrant served.All search warrants shall be issued in duplicate. The duplicate shall be delivered to the officer with the original warrant, and when the officer serves the warrant, he or she shall deliver a copy to the person named in the warrant, or in his or her absence to some person in charge of, or living on the premises. When property is taken under the warrant the officer shall deliver to such person a written inventory of the property taken and receipt for the same, specifying the same in detail, and if no person is found in possession of the premises where such property is found, shall leave the said receipt on the premises.
History.s. 11, ch. 9321, 1923; CGL 8513; s. 1572, ch. 97-102.

Cases Citing F.S. 933.11

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·Dunnavant v. State, 46 So. 2d 871 (Fla. 1950).

Cited 31 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1950 Fla. LEXIS 957

...Yes, sir." Arguments of counsel for the respective parties center about two questions as controlling and, as stated in the briefs, are viz.: Question No. 1: Where a search warrant is executed and the executing officer wholly fails to deliver the written inventory and receipt required by Section 933.11, F.S.A., is the evidence found upon the search admissible over timely objection? Question No....
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Cited as authority(citing case) (2010)
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Cited as authorityBurns (1986)
phrase: "rule_authority"
Cited as authority(citing case) (1977)
phrase: "rule_authority"
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·Florida Dept. of Agric. & Consum. Servs. v. Haire, 836 So. 2d 1040 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003).

Cited 10 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2003 WL 118257

...ased upon the affidavit. How the magistrate accomplishes this is within the magistrate's discretion. Moreover, it is also limited by the statutory and practical necessity that a copy of the warrant be provided to the person named in the warrant. See § 933.11, Fla....
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Cited as authority(citing case) (2019)
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Cited as authority(citing case) (2019)
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Cited as authorityMendez (2013)
phrase: "rule_authority"
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·Martin v. State, 344 So. 2d 248 (Fla. 2d DCA 1976).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...was delivered to appellant during the execution of the warrant. Section 933.07, F.S. 1973, requires that, upon sufficient application, a committing magistrate shall "issue a search warrant signed by him with his name of office." (Italics supplied.) Section 933.11, F.S....
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Cited as authorityCovert (2006)
phrase: "rule_authority"
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·Harden v. State, 433 So. 2d 1378 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...mply a form which would be applicable to any search warrant and which could not possibly be legal without its attachments. Thus, he argues that the seizure must be quashed for the failure to serve him with a copy of the search warrant as provided in section 933.11, Florida Statutes (1981), which reads in pertinent part: 933.11 Duplicate to be delivered when warrant served....
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Cited as authorityCarter (1994)
phrase: "rule_authority"
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·State v. Riley, 462 So. 2d 800 (Fla. 1984).

Cited 3 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...received notification that search warrants had been issued and were en route. Under these facts, we find that the conduct in question clearly falls within the perimeters of the Supreme Court's holding in Segura. [3] Furthermore, we find that neither section 933.11 nor 933.08, Florida Statutes (1981), is violated when an officer, without physical possession of a search warrant, enters and secures premises for which a warrant has been issued, as long as the warrant has been issued and is executed before the search is commenced....
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DistinguishedHill (2008)
phrase: "distinguishing"
Cited as authority(citing case) (1989)
phrase: "rule_authority"
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·State v. Nelson, 542 So. 2d 1043 (Fla. 5th DCA 1989).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 1989 WL 44853

...searched. Affidavits describing the place to be searched and items to be seized must be attached to a warrant where the affidavit is relied upon to cure a deficiency in the warrant. See Kelly v. State, 508 So.2d 568 (Fla. 2d DCA 1987); §§ 933.07 & 933.11, Fla....
...1st DCA 1978) (a search of a citizen's residence must be based on the description set forth in the warrant and not left to the discretion of an officer). In the instant case, Agent Grady procured the search warrant and delivered it to another agent to execute the search. Grady retained the affidavits contrary to section 933.11....
...NOTES [1] In Carlton v. State, 449 So.2d 250 (Fla. 1984), the court disapproved of Pezzella's strict requirement of particularity concerning controlled substances, but at the same time recited with approval the general policy considerations as outlined above. [2] Section 933.11 states that a duplicate shall be delivered to the executing officer "with the original warrant."
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Cited as authorityRuss (2016)
phrase: "rule_authority"
Cited as authorityMERRIEL (2009)
phrase: "rule_authority"
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·Miller v. State, 170 So. 2d 319 (Fla. 2d DCA 1964).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...Appellants argue that execution of the warrant was fatally defective in that the officer failed to announce his authority before breaking into the premises and failed, subsequently, to serve a copy of the warrant upon the person named therein. *322 See Fla.Stats. §§ 933.09 and 933.11, F.S.A....
...Upon executing the warrant a copy was read in the presence of both the named individual, Doris Miller, and the person apparently in possession of the premises, Amos Miller, and was subsequently delivered to the latter. In our view this procedure complied with the mandate of Fla. Stat. § 933.11, F.S.A....
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Cited as authorityEllis (1988)
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Cited as authorityBrown (1966)
phrase: "rule_authority"
Cert. deniedEllis (1988)
phrase: "cert. denied"
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·Riley v. State, 448 So. 2d 1029 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1983).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 18984

...In this connection, we must differ with our former colleague, Judge Gerald Mager, who concluded otherwise in his concurring opinion in Swinford v. State, 311 So.2d 727 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975). Like the trial judge in this case, we are unpersuaded by Judge Mager’s analysis. Section 933.11, Florida Statutes (1981), provides that “[a]ll search warrants shall be issued in duplicate,” and that said duplicate “shall be delivered to the officer with the original warrant, and when the officer serves the warrant, he shall...
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Cited as authorityRiley (1984)
phrase: "rule_authority"
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·Colocado v. State, 251 So. 2d 721 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1971).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1971 Fla. App. LEXIS 6214

...ainst appellant is reversed and set aside and this cause remanded for the entry of an appropriate sentence consistent with our holding herein. RAWLS and SPECTOR, JJ., concur. . Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 , 86 S.Ct.1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 . . F.S. § 933.11, F.S.A....
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Cited as authorityRincon (2008)
phrase: "rule_authority"
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·State v. Gayle, 573 So. 2d 968 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1991 Fla. App. LEXIS 426, 1991 WL 6003

...State, 433 So.2d 1378 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983). No showing of prejudice was made here. State v. Henderson, 253 So.2d 158 (Fla. 4th DCA 1971). We also find no basis for the trial court’s conclusion that the search warrant was in validly executed. Neither section 933.09 nor section 933.11, Florida Statutes (1989) is violated when an officer, without immediate physical possession of a warrant, enters and secures the premises for which the warrant has been issued....
...In the case sub judice, it is clear that the warrant had been issued before the officers arrived at Gayle’s apartment, and that the warrant was in a folder in the police vehicle. See Segura v. U.S., 468 U.S. 796 , 104 S.Ct. 3380 , 82 L.Ed.2d 599 (1984); State v. Riley, 462 So.2d 800 (Fla.1984). This failure to comply with section 933.11 1 is at best a technical defect which does not invalidate the search or the search warrant....
...Jones, 327 So.2d 18 (Fla.1976); Purdy v. Mulkey, 228 So.2d 132 (Fla. 3d DCA 1969). Accordingly, we reverse the appealed suppression order and remand this cause for further proceedings. REVERSED; REMANDED. COWART, J., concurs. GRIFFIN, J., concurs in result only. . Section 933.11 provides: search warrants shall be issued in duplicate....
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Cited as authorityAllotey (2020)
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State v. Gaunt, 456 So. 2d 534 (Fla. 2d DCA 1984).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 9 Fla. L. Weekly 2034, 1984 Fla. App. LEXIS 15065

GRIMES, Judge. The state appeals an order suppressing evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant because a duplicate signed copy of the warrant was not served upon the defendant at the time of its execution as required by section 933.11, Florida Statutes (1983)....
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Feldman v. State, 195 So. 2d 242 (Fla. 1st DCA 1967).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1967 Fla. App. LEXIS 5337

specifying the same in detail * * *.” F.S.A. § 933.11. The judicial act complained of on appellants’

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