Fredrick K. Koch v. Town of Brattleboro, Vermont, Sherwood D. Lake, Jr., and John Doe, Unidentified Brattleboro Police Officer

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• holding that a grant of summary judgment based on qualified immunity “was appropriate because the officers reasonably believed that exigent circumstances justified their entry”
• holding that a grant of summary judgment based on qualified immunity \was appropriate because the officers reasonably believed that exigent circumstances justified their entry\
• probable cause under the emergency doctrine requires \a probability that a person is in danger\
• when convinced that the purported constitutional right violated was not “clearly established,” the court retains discretion to refrain from determining whether, under the first step of the Saucier test, a constitutional right has been violated at all

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