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Michigan Supreme Court· 7/1/2011

People v. Slaughter

Citations

  • 489 Mich. 302
  • 803 N.W.2d 171
  • 2011 Mich. LEXIS 1175

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  • concluding that the community-caretaker exception applies to firefighters responding to an emergency in a home
  • stating that courts have included the removal of an intoxicated person from the street as a police function within the meaning of the community-caretaking function
  • holding that that the community caretaking exception applies when a firefighter, responding to an emergency call involving a threat to life or property, reasonably enters a private residence in order to abate what is reasonably believed to be an imminent threat of fire inside
  • holding that that the community caretaking exception applies when a firefighter, responding to an emergency call involving a threat to life or property, reasonably enters a private residence in order to abate what is reasonably believed to be an imminent threat of fire inside
  • “Thus, by expressly and repeatedly approving the jury instructions on the record, defendant waived any objection to the erroneous instructions, and there is no error to review.”
  • “This Court has ruled that the Michigan Constitution is to be construed to provide the same protection as that secured by the Fourth Amendment, absent compelling reason to impose a different interpretation.”

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Judges: Beth, Cavanagh, Hathaway, Kelly, Marilyn, Markman, Mary, Young, Zahra

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