United States v. Hunter Lee Williams Nicholas Edward George and Geoffrey Hillman Leek

How courts have described this case

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• ruling as unreasonable drug enforcement agents’ entry into property where purported water leak posed no immediate danger
• recognizing “hot pursuit of a fleeing felon” as an exigency exception to the warrant requirement
• holding private search doctrine not justified where landlord concerned about water leak entered rental unit, became suspicious of criminal activity, and called authorities, who walked through property with landlord and found marijuana
• discussing the real immediate and serious consequences certain to occur standard in exigent circumstances analysis
• discussing the real immediate and serious consequences certain to occur standard in exigent circumstances analysis
• explaining actions taken as community caretakers must be totally divorced from the detection, investigation, or acquisition of evidence relating to the violation of a criminal statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).