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Unlawful Entry
In law, trespass can be:
In some jurisdictions trespassing is an infraction or misdemeanor covered by a criminal code. In other jurisdictions, it is not considered a crime or penal in nature. Property is protected from trespass under civil law and privacy acts. In England and Wales, despite the prevalence of notices asserting that "trespassers will be prosecuted", unless the trespass is aggravated in some way, it will only be a civil wrong.
Entry into open door after nobody answered was unlawful because of no exigency
Officer came to a house on a complaint of animal abuse and breeding dogs for fighting. The house was partially boarded up and could have been abandoned, but he had no information...
GA: Unlawful entry and ordering defendant out of shower at gunpoint tainted consent
Unlawful entry into defendant's hotel room and getting him out of the shower at gunpoint did not make his consent voluntary...
NC: Demand for entry into hotel room by police with consent of management was unlawful
A hotel proprietor has the ability to enter for the safety of all customers of the hotel, but that was not a waiver of defendant's expectation of privacy in his rented room from the police...
Police officer's entry into his own mother's home was private entry or by ongoing consent
Police officer not in uniform or on duty entered his own mother's home because he knew that his daughter was upset. He tried to call on the phone there to get a patrol car to come, but that wasn't working, so he went to his own house and got his own patrol car and came back...
The Effects of Past Entry, Market Consolidation, and Expansion by Incumbents on the Probability of Entry
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Robert M. Adams and Dean F. Amel, both of the Federal Reserve Board, discuss The Effects of Past Entry, Market Consolidation, and Expansion by Incumbents on the Probability of Entry in their latest working paper...
S.D. N.Y.: Missing child ruse to gain entry to look around invalidated entry and consents
Use of a ruse of looking for a missing girl invalidated defendant's consent to enter his hotel room to look around. Once inside, officers asked for consent to look for weapons, and then looked in a bag and found heroin which led to defendant's indictment...















