Mestral v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a protective sweep of the defendant’s home was impermissible where no exigent circumstances existed
• protective sweep was impermissible where “the officers entered the residence as part of a routine practice and not on the basis of any articulable facts which would warrant a reasonable belief that there was any dangerous individual inside who posed a threat to those on the arrest scene.”
• \In this case the officers entered the residence as part of a routine practice and not on the basis of any articulable facts which would warrant a reasonable belief that there was any dangerous individual inside who posed a threat to those on the arrest scene.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).