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· 5/19/1952

Osborne v. Purdome

Citations

  • 343 U.S. 953
  • 72 S. Ct. 1046
  • 96 L. Ed. 1354
  • 1952 U.S. LEXIS 2088

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that defendant police officer “was not entitled to summary judgment because he has not proved ... that he had probable cause” for a warrantless entry
  • “If the [plaintiffs] can prove that the officers did not ask for permission to enter and did not explain their mission ... then ... the jury could find that the entry was not peaceable”

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