United States v. Lorenzo Cortez Colbert

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a protective sweep was unconstitutional where the officer “didn’t have any information at all” as to whether “anyone was inside the [defendant’s] apartment”
• holding that a protective sweep was unconstitutional where the officer \didn't have any information at all\ as to whether \anyone was inside the [defendant's] apartment\
• recognizing that a protective search of a residence may be justified when the defendant is arrested outside of the home
• stating that a protective sweep was not justified where officers had no information anyone else was in the defendant’s apartment
• observing that, “[i]f district courts are allowed to justify protective sweeps based on the dangerousness ofthe arrestee, nearly every arrest taking place in or near a home will include a protective sweep”
• stating 17 that a protective sweep was not justified where officers had no information anyone 18 else was in the defendant’s apartment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).