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Wood v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 497 S.E.2d 484
  • 27 Va. App. 21
  • 1998 Va. App. LEXIS 201

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  • noting that the United States Supr.eme Court “has yet to decide whether a situation might exist that would justify a warrantless intrusion into an individual’s home under the ‘community caretaker’ doctrine, as distinguished from an emergency or exigent circumstances”
  • explaining “[t]he threshold question is whether [the] evidence is the product of an illegal search”
  • \[T]he [United States] Supreme Court has yet to decide whether a situation might exist that would justify a warrantless intrusion into an individual's home under the `community caretaker' doctrine. . . .\

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Judges: Fitzpatrick, Baker, Benton, Coleman, Willis, Elder, Annunziata, Overton

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