Helen Frances Sutton Root v. Isabel H. Gauper

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• knowledge that victim had been removed from premises by medical personnel and no other victims found negated grounds for delayed warrantless entry by police
• town marshal’s delay of “several minutes” before warrantless entry inconsistent with belief “that wounded persons” were then “inside house awaiting attention.”
• warrantless searches are per se unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment – subject only to a few specifically established and well-delineated exceptions, such as plain view, consent, and exigency
• police, en route to residence, passed ambulance taking murder victim to hospital
• police, en route to residence, passed ambulance taking murder victim to hospital
• injured man already removed, so no emergency justified entry

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).