Laroy Edward Melton v. State

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• requiring articulable facts to support the belief of the presence of a dangerous person nearby
• “[A]n arrest warrant, by itself, provides authority for the police to enter a person’s residence to effectuate his or her arrest.”
• a general desire to make sure no one is hiding is not sufficient to justify a protective sweep outside the immediate area where an arrest has occurred
• \[A] `general desire to be sure that no one is hiding in the place searched is not sufficient' to justify a protective sweep outside the immediate area where an arrest has occurred.\ (quoting State v. Schaffer, 133 Idaho 126, 982 P.2d 961, 966 (Ct.App.1999))
• “[A] ‘general desire to be sure that no one is hiding in the place searched is not sufficient’ to justify a protective sweep outside the immediate area where an arrest has occurred.” (quoting State v. Schaffer, 133 Idaho 126, 982 P.2d 961, 966 (Ct.App.1999))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).