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NC: Hot pursuit on a PV warrant justified warrantless entry

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Hot pursuit justified officers' entry into a mobile home after defendant for whom officers had a PV warrant. State v. Fuller, 2009 N.C. App. LEXIS 419 (April 21, 2009).* Tennessee law does not explicitly require a license plate light, so a stop for not having one in working order was without reasonable suspicion. Stop suppressed. State v. Hunt, 2009 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 266 (April 17, 2009).* The state proved that exigent circumstances existed by a call for aid. The mere fact a knock was not answered is not exigent circumstances, but the facts known to the officers at the time were sufficiently exigent to justify an entry without a warrant. Montgomery v. State, 2009 Ind. App. LEXIS 725 (April 20, 2009).* Reviewing the U.S. Magistrate Judge's R&R de novo, the District Judge concludes that officers in fact had a reasonable suspicion to detain defendant based on the CI's information...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on April 24, 2009 (boomark / email).