United States v. Dan W. Timberlake

How courts have described this case

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• holding that police created exigent circumstances where “[t]he record contains no evidence that the police, when they knocked on the door, intended anything other than a warrantless search of the apartment”
• holding warrantless entry and search of house unlawful where exigent circumstances did not exist
• police improperly manufactured exigency when they knocked on door and shouted “police, police, open up”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).