United States v. Dennis Chan Lai, United States of America v. Silas Brandon

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• noting that exigent circumstances includes those circumstances that would cause a reasonable officer to believe that entry was necessary \to prevent physical harm to the officers or other persons\
• determining that the drugs records sought to be admitted were hearsay
• noting that probable cause exists if under the \totality of the circumstances\ known to the officers at the time of entry, there was a \fair probability\ that contraband or evidence of a crime would be found inside the home
• noting the significance of information demonstrating that occupants may possess weapons
• exigency based on evidence that drug gang would destroy evidence or arm themselves if police did not respond immediately
• exigency based on evidence that drug gang would destroy evidence or arm themselves if police did not respond immediately

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).