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Minn. Stat. § 626.07 (2026)

Grounds For Issuance

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A search warrant may be issued upon any of the following grounds:

(1) the property or things were stolen or embezzled;

(2) the property or things were used as the means of committing a crime;

(3) the possession of the property or things constitutes a crime;

(4) the property or things are in the possession of any person with the intent to use them as a means of committing a crime, or the property or things so intended to be used are in the possession of another to whom they have been delivered for the purpose of concealing them or preventing their being discovered;

(5) the property or things to be seized consist of any item or constitute any evidence which tends to show a crime has been committed, or tends to show that a particular person has committed a crime.

The property or things described in this section may be taken pursuant to the warrant from any place, or from any person in whose possession they may be.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases, 1985–2015 · leading case: Arbitration Between Minnesota State Patrol Troopers Ass'n Ex Rel. Pince v. State, Dep't of Pub. Saf., 437 N.W.2d 670 (Minn. Ct. App. 1989).
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Arbitration Between Minnesota State Patrol Troopers Ass'n Ex Rel. Pince v. State, Dep't of Pub. Saf., 437 N.W.2d 670 (Minn. Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 4× “See Minn.Stat. § 626.07(2) & (5) (1986). The application and accompanying affidavit unaccountably failed to mention the forgery of the postal change of address card, which was the only chargeable criminal offense.”
State v. McGrath, 706 N.W.2d 532 (Minn. Ct. App. 2005). · cites it 2× “Minn.Stat. § 626.07(3) (2004) (“A search warrant may be issued upon any of the following grounds: .”
State v. Intercontinental, Ltd., 486 A.2d 174 (Md. 1985). “652 (West 1982); Minn.Stat.Ann. § 626.07 (West 1983); Mo. Ann.”
Search Warrant of Columbia Heights v. Rozman, 586 N.W.2d 273 (Minn. Ct. App. 1998). · cites it 2× “City’s search warrant applications cited Minn.Stat. § 626.07(5), City’s Housing Maintenance Code, and the Camara decision.”
State of Minnesota v. Jeremy Fredrick Aguirre (Minn. Ct. App. 2015). · cites it 3× “Because the offense being investigated constituted a “crime” for the purposes of Minn. Stat. § 626.07 , it was sufficiently serious to support issuance of the first search warrant.”
— Minn. Stat. § 626.07(2) — 1 case
Arbitration Between Minnesota State Patrol Troopers Ass'n Ex Rel. Pince v. State, Dep't of Pub. Saf., 437 N.W.2d 670 (Minn. Ct. App. 1989). “See Minn.Stat. § 626.07(2) & (5) (1986). The application and accompanying affidavit unaccountably failed to mention the forgery of the postal change of address card, which was the only chargeable criminal offense.”
— Minn. Stat. § 626.07(3) — 1 case
State v. McGrath, 706 N.W.2d 532 (Minn. Ct. App. 2005). “Minn.Stat. § 626.07(3) (2004) (“A search warrant may be issued upon any of the following grounds: .”
— Minn. Stat. § 626.07(5) — 1 case
Search Warrant of Columbia Heights v. Rozman, 586 N.W.2d 273 (Minn. Ct. App. 1998). “City’s search warrant applications cited Minn.Stat. § 626.07(5), City’s Housing Maintenance Code, and the Camara decision.”
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