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Florida Statute 933.12 - Full Text and Legal Analysis Florida Statute 933.12 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research
Fla. Stat. § 933.12 (2026) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Amendments
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.

Cases Citing F.S. 933.12

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·Coon v. State, 585 So. 2d 1079 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991).

Cited 14 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1991 WL 174435

...Therefore, it cannot be said appellant's motion was untimely. [1] Although appellant's description of the property allegedly set forth — "tools, radios, speakers, etc." — is somewhat vague, he alleged the dates of the alleged illegal seizures — April 23 and April 24, 1989. 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....
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·Joyner v. City of Lakeland, 90 So. 2d 118 (Fla. 1956).

Cited 12 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...trial court upon this point. See also 79 C.J.S., Searches and Seizures, § 83, page 903, and Annotation, 169 A.L.R. 1419. It is next contended that the return and inventory on the search warrant in this case is insufficient as a matter of law. 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....
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Cited as authorityLaiser (1975)
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·Lowe v. State, 751 So. 2d 177 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2000 Fla. App. LEXIS 1120, 2000 WL 145316

is the failure of the inventory, required by section 933.12, Florida Statues (1995), to include any of
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