United States v. Charles D. Webb

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[ejxigent circumstances exist when there is a reasonable belief by police that their safety, or the safety of the public, may be threatened.”
• deciding that exigent circumstances allowed officer to retrieve shotgun from car trunk with keys still in the lock because gun could have been easily retrieved and officer feared gun's safety mechanisms might not have been activated, allowing gun to accidentally discharge
• finding no abuse of discretion in judge’s questioning, which was “intended to speed the suppression hearing along”
• upholding warrantless search of car based on exigent circumstances when defendant tossed gun in trunk of car because gun could easily fire and was accessible to passers by

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).