Wisconsin Code § 968.13

Search warrant; property subject to seizure
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(1) A search warrant may authorize the seizure of the following:
(a) Contraband, which includes without limitation because of
enumeration lottery tickets, gambling machines or other gambling devices, lewd, obscene or indecent written matter, pictures,
sound recordings or motion picture films, forged money or written instruments and the tools, dies, machines or materials for
making them, and controlled substances, as defined in s. 961.01
(4), and controlled substance analogs, as defined in s. 961.01
(4m), and the implements for smoking or injecting them. Gambling machines or other gambling devices possessed by a shipbuilding business that complies with s. 945.095 are not subject to
this section.
(b) Anything which is the fruit of or has been used in the commission of any crime or of a violation of s. 346.63 or a local ordinance in conformity therewith.
(c) Anything other than documents which may constitute evidence of any crime or of a violation of s. 346.63 or a local ordinance in conformity therewith.
(d) Documents which may constitute evidence of any crime, if
probable cause is shown that the documents are under the control
of a person who is reasonably suspected to be concerned in the
commission of that crime under s. 939.05 (2).
(2) In this section, “documents” includes, but is not limited
to, books, papers, records, recordings, tapes, photographs, films
or computer or electronic data.

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