2014 Iowa Code
TITLE XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
SUBTITLE 2 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 808 - SEARCH AND SEIZURE
SECTION 808.10 - Maliciously suing out a warrant — officer exceeding authority.


IA Code § 808.10 (2014) What's This?

808.10  Maliciously suing out a warrant — officer exceeding authority.

Whoever maliciously and without just cause procures a search warrant to be issued and executed is guilty of a serious misdemeanor.  Anyone who, in executing a search warrant, willfully exceeds the person’s authority, or exercises it with unnecessary severity, is guilty of a serious misdemeanor.

[C51, §3308; R60, §5045, 5046; C73, §4650, 4651; C97, §5565, 5566; C24, 27, 31, §13438, 13439; C35, §13441-g38, -g39; C39, §13441.38, 13441.39; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §751.38, 751.39; C79, 81, §808.10]

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