City of Fargo v. Ternes

How courts have described this case

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• holding that one circumstance justifying the officers’ reasonable belief that a driver in an accident suffered sufficiently serious injuries was the presence of “blood on the seat and blood mingled with glass on the dashboard and steering wheel”
• holding that the warrantless entry was permissible where the officers knew the defendant was inside, had been involved in a serious accident, was bleeding, and where they received no response after knocking on the front door for several minutes, entered the residence
• holding warrantless entry justified when police learned defendant involved in a car accident resulting in a cut on to his right cheek and visible damage to the car
• holding officers had reasonable grounds to believe an emergency existed when they knew Ternes was in a serious vehicle accident and a large amount of blood was inside the vehicle and led to his home
• holding officers had reasonable grounds to believe an emergency existed when they knew Ternes was in a serious vehicle accident and a large amount of blood was inside the vehicle and led to his home
• responding to hit-and-run injury accident, officers went to residence and saw damaged pickup parked outside with blood on truck seat and on door of residence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).