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Fla. Stat. § 933.12 (2025)
Return and inventory.
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933.12 Return and inventory.—Upon the return of the warrant the officer shall attach thereto or thereon a true inventory of the property taken under the warrant, and at the foot of the inventory shall verify the same by affidavit taken before some officer authorized to administer oaths, or before the issuing officer, said verification to be to the following effect:
I, A. B., the officer by whom the warrant was executed, do swear that the above inventory contains a true and detailed account of all the property taken by me on said warrant.
History.—s. 12, ch. 9321, 1923; CGL 8514.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1956–2022 · leading case: Coon v. State, 585 So. 2d 1079 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991).
Coon v. State, 585 So. 2d 1079 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991). “Section 933.12, Florida Statutes (1989), requires the police to attach to the returned search warrant a true inventory of property taken under that warrant.”
Joyner v. City of Lakeland, 90 So. 2d 118 (Fla. 1956). “F.S. § 933.12, F.S.A., requires the officer to make affidavit that the inventory contains a true and detailed account of all property taken under the warrant.”
Lowe v. State, 751 So. 2d 177 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000). “More telling is the failure of the inventory, required by section 933.12, Florida Statues (1995), to include any of the items for which Lowe was arrested.”
Amalfitano v. United States, No. 8:21-cv-02768 (M.D. Fla. Nov. 18, 2022). “It appears that the search warrant return was required to be notarized per Florida Statute section 933.12. This return was notarized and was stated to be signed under oath as required by the statute, but in this record one cannot see the notary stamp on the warrant or return…”
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