Sidener v. State of Florida

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• analyzing whether exigency had dissipated during a one-hour delay before arresting defendant in his home
• rejecting argument that one hour delay for reinforcements precluded finding of exigency where officers expected backups to arrive quickly and did not realize there would be a delay
• rejecting argument that one hour delay for reinforcements precluded finding of exigency where officers expected backups to arrive quickly and did not realize there would be a delay
• “[T]he delay did not dissipate the exigency. The source remained in possession of dangerous explosives.... ”
• exigent circumstances still present after officers waited an hour for backup to arrive in order to enter a home to conduct a warrantless search for explosives
• arrest of courier and reasonable belief that source would suspect police involvement triggering armed resistance to arrest creates exigency

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).