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· 6/9/1982

Janicek v. State

Citations

  • 634 S.W.2d 687
  • 1982 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 958

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that trial court made fact findings after suppression hearing concerning allegedly illegal entry into home
  • holding warrantless search was justified under the emergency doctrine because there was every indication that appellant was in the house, appellant had a psychiatric history, and there had been reports of a gun shot in the area
  • reasonableness of the emergency entry is to be judged by the circumstances as they existed at the time the decision was made to enter rather than being affected by whatever condition is found inside.
  • reasonableness of the emergency entry is to be judged by the circumstances as they existed at the time the decision was made to enter rather than being affected by whatever condition is found inside.

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Judges: Roberts, Clinton, McCormick

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