Case v. Montana · ¶2
Held: Brigham City's objective reasonableness standard for warrantless home entries to render emergency aid applies without further gloss and was satisfied in this case. Pp. 113–119. (a) “[S]earches and seizures inside a home without a warrant are presumptively unreasonable” under the Fourth Amendment. Brigham City, 547 U. S., at 403. But the “warrant requirement is subject to certain exceptions,” Lange v. California, 594 U. S. 295, 301, including the need to render emergency assistance. The Court first approved a warrantless home entry to render emergency assistance in Brigham City, holding that officers may enter when they have “an objectively reasonable basis for believing that an occupant is seriously injured or imminently threatened with such injury.” 547 U. S., at 400. The Montana Supreme Court's opinion below strayed from that rule. Most important, the emergency-aid test…Read in context ›
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