Potts v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• confirming that a “police officer in the scope of his duties may approach a suspect’s front door and knock in an attempt to talk to that suspect”
• confirming that a \police officer in the scope of his duties may approach a suspect's front door and knock in an attempt to talk to that suspect\
• § 112.182, Fla.Stat.(1990) ’abolished the common law rule, the “firefighter rule,” that firefighters and police officers upon the land of another while carrying out their official duties occupied the status of a mere licensee.
• permissible for officer to go to front door to investigate theft
• no expectation of privacy in entrance to property open to public

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).