United States v. Charles Demetrios Brand

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• holding that the medical emergency justified the officers’ presence only in the living room and that the officers infringed upon the defendant’s legitimate expectation of privacy when they expanded their intrusion into the bedroom
• officer properly entered to assist with overdose victim, but search of another room after victim was removed was improper
• officer properly entered to assist with overdose victim, but search of another room after victim was removed was improper
• police “must confine their intrusion to the scope of the original invasion unless a warrant or one of the exceptions to the warrant requirement justifies a more thorough or wide ranging search”
• where officer legally entered house to aid drug overdose victim, other officers could legally enter even though the exigency justifying the initial entry no longer existed
• no warrant required when police officers entered house after another police officer had helped handle an emergency drug overdose and the second group of police officers observed evidence which formed the basis for a subsequent search warrant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).