United States v. Walter Richard, Lesburn Lloyd Da Costa, and Headley Weir

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• holding that agents created exigency when they announced themselves as \warrantless entry became a foregone conclusion\
• officers had time to obtain a warrant before knocking on the door of a motel room of a suspected drug smuggler
• when occupants did not open the door immediately, officers heard people talking softly, doors or drawers slamming, and footsteps
• officers had time to obtain a warrant before knocking on the door of a motel room of a suspected drug smuggler
• consent valid when police -19- officers honestly but inaccurately informed the subject of the search that her boyfriend had already agreed to allow them to search her motel room
• the use of informants to manufacture warrantless searches is not objectively reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).