Case v. Montana · ¶17

Three years later, in Michigan v. Fisher, we reiterated what we had said in Brigham City about the “emergency aid exception.” 558 U. S. 45, 47 (2009) (per curiam). The police in Fisher, also responding to a neighbor's report, found a scene redolent of violence and danger. Three windows were broken, with the glass strewn on the ground outside; blood was smeared on one of the doors, as well as on the smashed- in hood of a pickup truck in the driveway; and, visible through a window, a man inside the house was “screaming and throwing things” at an unseen target. Id., at 48. We held that the officers' entry in those circumstances was “reasonable under the Fourth Amendment,” just as it had been in Brigham City. 558 U. S., at 48. Using the same standard articulated there, we concluded that the officers had “an objectively reasonable basis for believing” that an occupant of the home needed…

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