Hunsberger v. Wood

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a reasonable officer could conclude that entering an unoccupied house was necessary to locate a missing child who may have been inside
• holding that a reasonable officer could conclude that entering an unoccupied house was necessary to locate a missing child who may have been inside
• explaining that courts have applied the community caretaking exception to searches of private homes, but declining to apply the rationale in that particular case
• defining exigent circumstances as “an emergency *** requiring] immediate entry to render assistance or prevent harm to persons or property within”
• describing exigent circumstances as those creating “objectively reasonable belief that an emergency existed that required immediate entry to render assistance or prevent harm to persons or property within”
• noting overlap and distinction between community caretaking and exi- gent circumstances doctrines

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).