United States v. Alexander Lopez

How courts have described this case

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• holding that police were justified under the hot pursuit doctrine in following defendant into a house because he fit a general description of an armed assault suspect and ran from police when he was ordered to halt
• observing that “the officer saw the opening in the bathroom ceiling through an open door, entered the empty room, and with little effort saw the butt of the weapon”
• finding that “police had no assurance ... that the apartment was secure”
• noting that police are allowed to consider their -15- -15- own safety
• upholding a weapons search where the police had ample basis for believing that a dangerous weapon was lodged close by, that the defendant might not be acting alone, and that the premises were not secure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).