People v. Molnar

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Defining an emergency with the rigidity defendant proposes may encourage police — so as to give their actions the appearance of an emergency— to break in prematurely, before exhausting other reasonable means of gaining access.”
• emergency still existed notwithstanding passage of one hour between arrival of police and their entry into premises
• emergency still existed notwithstanding passage of one hour between arrival of police and their entry into premises
• neighborsreported not seeing defendant’s wife for some time and foul, unidentified odor was emanating from home
• “People sometimes create cooking odors or make noise to the point where neighbors complain.”
• war- rantless entry authorized under caretaking function due to detection of foul unidentified odor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).