Thacker v. City Of Columbus

How courts have described this case

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• holding that exigent circumstances justifying warrantless entry exist where the suspect poses “a risk of danger to the police or others.”
• explaining that Gallagher’s conflicting stories did not affect the officers’ finding of probable cause for arrest
• explaining that it was a “close question,” but ultimately holding that when someone was bleeding profusely and the cause of the injury was unexplained, it was objectively reasonable for the police to enter the home to look for other victims and provide protection to paramedics
• finding exigent circumstances where plaintiff “appeared intoxicated” and “acted belligerently and used profanity”
• citation No. 20-5178 Weser v. Goodson, et al. Page 7 and internal quotation marks omitted
• a federal malicious prosecution claim requires a showing “that there is no probable cause to justify an arrest or a prosecution”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).