Patrick McKinnon v. Michael W. Carr, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, where an individual voluntarily opened his front door, he was “in a place sufficiently public that he had no legitimate expectation of privacy” and the police could execute a warrantless arrest
• concluding a warrantless arrest was valid when officers knocked on the door and identified themselves; the defendant opened the door; and the officers told him that he was under arrest
• holding that a warrantless arrest at the doorway was permissible where plaintiff voluntarily exposed himself to the public when opening the door and that entry into home after the arrest was reasonable where the plaintiff acquiesced as well as to ensure he made no effort to escape
• affirming dismissal of a wrongful arrest claim where officers conducted a warrantless arrest after the suspect opened up his front door in response to the officers’ knocking
• upholding a warrantless arrest when police officers knocked on an individual’s door, the individual voluntarily answered the door, and the police officers arrested him in the threshold of his home
• prosecutor’s displaying handcuffs not in evidence in sexual bondage and rape case did not so prejudice jury as to warrant reversal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).