Benoit Saget v. Hunia Joseph

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• holding that exigent circumstances existed when officers relied on information that gunshots were fired from the residence, no one had left or entered since the gunshots, and no one answered the door
• exigency existed where “officers ... reasonably suspected that immediate police action was necessary to ascertain whether someone inside the house was in peril”
• exigency where officers knew that shots had been fired in a backyard on New Years Eve and that a 911 hangup call had come from the residence earlier, even though residents told officers through the window that no one was injured

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).