STANDARD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY v. EDITH LYNN SUROVEK

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• concluding that, in a § 1983 case, the officer bears the burden of establishing a warrant exception existed to justify a warrantless entry
• noting officers entered and seized Mr. Armijo not during a routine investigation but in an emergency
• As long as police officers act reasonably, they “need not exhaust every avenue of dispelling suspicion” prior to detaining a suspect.
• “The officers bear the burden of establishing that the threats posed exigent circumstances justifying the warrantless entry.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).