Can Law Enforcement Enter a Home Without a Warrant or Consent to Prevent Suicide?
An officer may enter a home without a warrant [or consent] if he has “an object [...]
Can Law Enforcement Cross the Threshold of a Home to Render Aid to an Injured Animal Under the Exigent Circumstance Doctrine?
The search of the home and surrounding premises was reasonable because the offi [...]
Two First District Appellate Court Judges Determine that Padlocking an Eight- and Ten-Year-Old Girls Behind a Second Floor Apartment Did Not Create a Substantial Risk to the Children
The trial court speculated that the locked door might prevent the children from [...]
Can Law Enforcement Force Entry to a Home that is Next to a Home that is on Fire?
No human was home but there was a pit bull and a marijuana grow operation insid [...]
Should Angela’s Methamphetamine be Suppressed or was there an On-Going Exigency at her Smoldering House?
[A] warrant was not required because it was demonstrated that Captain Chase had [...]
Did Kendall have an Expectation of Privacy in the Days Inn – Room 101 to Sell Fentanyl and Cocaine?
Appellant’s sole use of Room 101 was selling illegal narcotics in Room 101. Acc [...]
Safe at Home?
The flight of a suspected misdemeanant does not justify a warrantless entry int [...]
Did Cambridge Police Enter the Home under an Exigent Circumstance or Consent?
Two Courts Disagree In this case, while we find the facts and circumstances did [...]
What is Reasonable at 1:37 a.m. Is Different Under a Judge’s Fluorescent Office Lights
[A]t the time police in this case entered the cell phone tower, we find they la [...]
Living the Life of Reilly … Now Means Living With People He Never Met at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections
[L]aw enforcement’s warrantless entry was justified because it had a reasonable [...]