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Supreme Court Decision Shreds Fourth Amendment, Allows Police to Enter Homes Without Warrant

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Dark_Falcon2/27/2014 6:42:09 am PST

re: #6 FemNaziBitch

It is my understanding that if the police believe a person is in imminent danger they do not need a warrant. This, IIRC, was a decided in a previous SCOTUS case.

This makes no sense to me. If a person is under arrest, the police would have time to get a warrant to search the hope with no worries of the person either fleeing or causing more harm to the DV victim.

Getting a warrant can takes hours and they might have been afraid word would get out and either the wife would recant before the warrant was issued or that someone would sneak into the house and dispose of the evidence. The LAPD doesn’t have to manpower to keep every angle of a normal house under observation for very long except for major crimes, so they may have felt it was “move it or lose it time”.