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· 2/26/2003

United States v. Kenneth R. Lenoir

Citations

  • 318 F.3d 725
  • 2003 WL 223442

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that when police officers are in communication regarding a suspect, “the knowledge of one officer can be imputed to No. 08-1259 7 the other officers under the collective knowledge doc- trine”
  • holding that hot pursuit of a fleeing suspect justified a warrantless entry into the suspect’s home to protect inhabitants as long as the police did not know the home belonged to the suspect
  • stating that “warrantless searches will be allowed when police have a reasonable belief that exigent circumstances require immediate action and there is no time to secure a warrant”
  • stating that “warrantless searches will be allowed when police have a reasonable belief that exigent circumstances require immediate action and there is no time to secure a war- rant”
  • “Carrying . . . weapons may not be a crime in Indiana, but the police can still factor this otherwise innocent behavior into the [reasonable suspicion] equation.”
  • officer reasonably suspected individual was violating Indiana’s public intoxication statute after observing suspect’s irregular gait

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Bauer, Easterbrook, Manion

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