El Paso County v. Juana M. Avila

How courts have described this case

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• observing that because the “defendant left the motel room door open[,] . . . anyone present in the room had a clear view of the officers, thereby threatening their safety from an unknown person present in the room”
• “[T]he officers did not act unreasonably in accompanying a shoeless, shirtless man about to be transported to jail back to his motel room. . . . The defendant had clothes and other personal items to be retrieved. . . . The law does not require officers to leave common sense at the door.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).