What is a search warrant and how do I get a copy?

A warrant has to particularly describe the place to be searched and the things to be seized. That specificity requirement is substantive — a warrant that authorizes searching one address doesn't authorize the one next door, and one issued to look for a stolen vehicle doesn't authorize opening a jewelry box.

Officers executing a warrant generally leave a copy along with a receipt for what was taken. If you weren't given one, ask.

The document that matters more is the supporting affidavit — the sworn statement setting out the facts the officer presented to obtain the warrant. That's where the probable cause lives, and it's obtainable through discovery.

Reading the affidavit against the rest of the record is where warrant challenges come from. It's written under time pressure, and it can contain assertions the body cam contradicts, information stated more strongly than the underlying source supports, or omissions of facts that cut the other way.