United States v. Jesus Humberto Munoz-Guerra

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting argument that exigent circumstances excused warrantless entry where agents' confrontation of suspects under covert surveillance was without any justification
• finding officers’ knock and talk created exigent circumstances where a “warrantless entry was [ ] a foregone conclusion”
• finding officers created the exigency by approaching residence under circumstances that were likely to necessitate a protective search
• determining officers could have easily continued covert surveillance of residence located at end of street and observable from great distances
• finding “no basis, on these facts, for believing that resort to a magistrate would have created risks of a greater magnitude than these, which are present in any case where the police has probable cause but delay pending receipt of a warrant”
• finding officers’ unprovoked approach of residence created exigent circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).