Flippo v. West Virginia

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that there is no murder scene exception to the Fourth Amendment
• concluding that police officers can enter without a warrant if they “reasonably believe a person is in need of immediate aid” but that that exception does not justify a general right to a warrantless search of a crime scene where there is no immediate danger
• making the same response to arguments that the search could be upheld under an implied consent theory
• declining to recognize a crime scene exception to the Fourth Amendment
• injured murder suspect transported to hospital; search taking place several hours later by investigators who re-entered the murder scene premises was held unconstitutional
• police processed defendant’s home for over 16 hours after his wife was found murdered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).