State v. Hetzko

How courts have described this case

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

• officers had reasonable belief that resident was in trouble and would have been considered derelict in their duty had they not entered the apartment
• question is whether “officers would have been derelict in their duty had they acted otherwise”
• officers would have been derelict in their duty if they acted otherwise
• police officers “had every reason to believe that the defendant was in distress or that some foul play had occurred”; they “would have been derelict in their duty” if they had not made a warrantless entry into the house

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).