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]
Structure Iowa Code
Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 808 - SEARCH AND SEIZURE
Section 808.2 - Authorization.
Section 808.3 - Application for search warrant.
Section 808.4A - Application for search warrant — global positioning device — issuance.
Section 808.6 - Forcible execution.
Section 808.7 - Detention and search of persons on premises.
Section 808.9 - Safekeeping of seized property.
Section 808.10 - Maliciously suing out a warrant — officer exceeding authority.
Section 808.11 - Transmission of papers to district court clerk.
Section 808.12 - Detention and search in theft of library materials and shoplifting.
Section 808.13 - Confidentiality.
Section 808.14 - Administrative warrants.
Section 808.15 - Unmanned aerial vehicle — information — admissibility.