Case v. Montana · ¶27

I join the Court’s opinion, which holds that police officers may enter a home without a warrant if they have an “‘objectively reasonable basis for believing’” that an occupant is seriously injured or imminently threatened with such harm. Ante, at 5, 7, 10. Although the Montana Supreme Court’s opinion appeared, erroneously, to apply a lower standard akin to reasonable suspicion, I agree that the officers here had an “‘objectively reasonable basis for believing’” that Case needed emergency assistance because he may have already shot himself or was imminently going to do so. Ante, at 7–10.

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