Supreme Court Mulls Whether Police Can Enter Home Without Warrant To Save A Life
At issue in the case was whether police may enter a person's home in order to safeguard the homeowner from potential harm.
by Nina Totenberg
Mar 24, 2021
3 minutes
Just what sort of emergency allows police to enter your home without a warrant? That was the question before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday. The court's imagination seemed endless, as the justices presented hypotheticals that involved rescuing everything from screaming babies to cats in a tree to a water-logged Van Gogh painting.
The actual case before the court involved a heated argument between a long-married couple, Edward and Kim Caniglia. He brought out a gun and told her to shoot him to put
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