Hegarty v. Somerset County

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• recognizing that “certain mitigating factors may undermine a showing of exigent circumstances; for example, where the criminal offense was not sufficiently serious (a traffic violation
• to establish supervisory liability, there must be “proof that the supervisor’s conduct led inexorably to [a] constitutional violation.”
• exigent circumstances found where armed suspect exhibited “violent, irrational and unpredictable behavior” and had barricaded herself inside a cabin containing firearms
• both analyzing warrantless home arrests in the context of qualified immunity
• “We must isolate all reasonably reliable information collectively known to the officers at the time their challenged conduct occurred, without indulging hindsight[.]” (citing Hunter v. Bryant, 502 U.S. 224, 227 (1991))
• woman shooting rifle at campers and threatening police justified entry into home

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).