United States v. Elder, Mark A.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that because many 911 callers are in danger, calls are brief and anonymous, and that these are the callers who are most in need of immediate police aid
• holding that police officers could not have known whether a caller to -1 11- 911, who complained of methamphetamine at an address and hung up abruptly, was safe until after they entered the residence located at the address
• stating that officers’ warrantless entries were justified to assure safety of individual who called 911
• stating that officers’ warrantless entries were justified to assure safety of individual who called 911
• stating that “consider- ations” of building’s occupants’ safety made police officers’ brief warrantless entry “prudent”
• stating that “considerations” of building’s occupants’ safety made police officers’ brief warrantless entry “prudent”

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