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“warrant is not required to break down a door to enter a burning home to rescue occupants or extinguish a fire, to prevent a shooting or to bring emergency aid to an injured person”
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Commonwealth v. Smigliano
warrant is not required to break down a door to enter a burning home to rescue occupants or extinguish a fire, to prevent a shooting or to bring emergency aid to an injured person
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Montgomery v. State
See Wayne v. United States, 318 F.2d 205, 212 (D.C.Cir.1963) ("[T)he business of policemen and firemen is to act, not to speculate or meditate on whether the report is correct."), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 860 , 84 S.Ct. 125 , 11 L.Ed.2d 86 (1963).
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State v. Frankel
See Wayne v. United States, 318 F.2d 205, 212 (D.C.Cir.), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 860 , 84 S.Ct. 125 , 11 L.Ed.2d 86 (1963); see also State v. Leandry, 151 N.J.Super. 92, 96 , 376 A.2d 574 (App.Div.), certif. denied, 75 N.J. 532 , 384 A.2d 511 (1977).
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United States v. Kelly
It is well settled that “the Fourth Amendment does not bar police officers from making warrantless entries and searches when they reasonably believe that a person "within is in need of immediate aid.” Mincey v. Arizona, 437 U.S. 385, 392 , 98 S.Ct. 2408 , 57 L.Ed.2d 290 (1978); see Wayne v. United States, 318 F.2d 205, 212 (D.C.Cir.) (“The need to protect or preserve life or avoid serious injury is justification for what would be otherwise illegal absent an exigency or emergency”), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 860 , 84 S.Ct. 125 , 11 L.Ed.2d 86 (1963).
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United States v. Joyce Phillips Black
See Mincey v. Arizona, 437 U.S. 385, 392 (1978) (stating that " '[t]he need to protect or preserve life or avoid serious injury is justification for what would be otherwise illegal absent an exigency or emergency' ") (quoting Wayne v. United States, 318 F.2d 205, 212 (D.C.Cir.), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 860 (1963)).
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State v. Butler
See Wayne v. United States, 115 U.S.App.D.C. 234, 238 , 318 F.2d 205, 209 , cert. denied, 375 U.S. 860 , 84 S.Ct. 125 , 11 L.Ed.2d 86 (1963); United States v. Bienvenue, 632 F.2d 910, 914 (CA1 1980); United States v. Fisher, 700 F.2d 780, 784 (CA2 1983); Government of Virgin Islands v. Gereau, 502 F.2d 914, 927-28 (CA3 1974), cert. denied, 420 U.S. 909 , 95 S.Ct. 829 , 42 L.Ed.2d 839 (1975); United States v. Seohnlein, 423 F.2d 1051, 1053 (CA4), cert. denied, 399 U.S. 913 , 90 S.Ct. 2215 , 26 L.Ed.2d 570 (1970); United States v. Brookins, 614 F.2d 1037, 1042, 1044 (CA5 1980); Papp v. Jago, 656…
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United States v. Robert Orville Dunavan, United States of America v. James Edward Mitchell
See Wayne v. United States, [ 115 U.S.App.D.C. 234 , 318 F.2d 205 , cert. denied, 375 U.S. 860 , 84 S.Ct. 125 , 11 L.Ed.2d 86 (1963)] supra (Burger, J., concurring).
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Stevens v. State
See Wayne v. United States, 115 U.S.App.D.C. 234 , 318 F.2d 205 , cert. denied, 375 U.S. 860 , 84 S.Ct. 125 , 11 L.Ed.2d 86 (1963); Davis v. State, 236 Md. 389 , 204 A.2d 76 , cert. denied, Davis v. Maryland, 380 U.S. 966 , 85 S.Ct. 1113 , 14 L.Ed.2d 156 (1965); See also Goss v. State, 390 P.2d 220, 224 (Alaska), cert. denied, Goss v. Alaska, 379 U.S. 859 , 85 S.Ct. 118 , 13 L.Ed.2d 62 (1964). .
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Roy A. Smith, Jr. v. United States of America, Cornelius Anderson, Jr. v. United States
See Wayne v. United States, 115 U.S.App.D.C. 234 , 318 F.2d 205 , cert. denied, 375 U.S. 860 , 84 S.Ct. 125 , 11 L.Ed.2d 86 (1963); Killough v. United States, 119 U.S.App.D.C.-, 336 F.2d 929 (1964).
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People v. Ormanian
DePaula [declining to adopt a requirement that the police obtain independent verification or other information relating to the emergency before entering a home]; see also Graham v Connor, 490 US 386, 397 [1989] [cautioning against second-guessing police officers who “are often forced to make split-second judgments—in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving”]; see also Wayne v United States, 375 US 860 [1963] [holding that in emergency situations, if officers are denied entry to a premise, they have the right and the duty to gain forcible entry]; see Brigham City, Ut…
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Paiva v. City of Reno
United States v. Dunavan, 485 F.2d 201 (6th Cir.1973); Root v. Gauper, 438 F.2d 361 (8th Cir.1971); see also Wayne v. United States, 318 F.2d 205 (D.C.Cir.), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 860 , 84 S.Ct. 125 , 11 L.Ed.2d 86 (1963).
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AAG v. State
See also Wayne v. United States, 318 F.2d 205, 212 (D.C.App.1963), (Washington, J., concurring), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 860 , 84 S.Ct. 125 , 11 L.Ed.2d 86 (1963) ("Acting in response to reports ... the business of policemen ... is to act, not to speculate or meditate on whether the report is correct.
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A.A.G. v. State
See also Wayne v. United States, 318 F.2d 205, 212 (D.C.App.1963), (Washington, J., concurring), cert, denied, 375 U.S. 860 , 84 S.Ct. 125 , 11 L.Ed.2d 86 (1963) (“Acting in response to reports ... the business of policemen ... is to act, not to speculate or meditate on whether the report is correct.
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Gallmeyer v. State
See also the following comments, made by Chief Justice (then Judge) Burger in Wayne v. United States, 318 F.2d 205, 212 (D.C.Cir.1963) cert. denied 375 U.S. 860 , 84 S.Ct. 125 , 11 L.Ed.2d 86 (1963) (emphasis in original): [T]he business of policemen and firemen is to act, not to speculate or meditate on whether the report is correct.
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United States v. Robert S. Wylie
See also the discussion in Wayne v. United States, 115 U.S.App.D.C. 234, 239-243 , 318 F.2d 205, 210-214 , cert. denied, 375 U.S. 860 , 84 S.Ct. 125 , 11 L.Ed.2d 86 (1963). 54 .
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United States v. Salvatore J. Barone
Compare Davis v. United States, 327 F.2d 301 (9 Cir. 1964), where the officers were admitted in order to talk to the defendant, and Judge Burger’s concurring opinion in Wayne v. United States, 115 U.S.App.D.C. 234 , 318 F.2d 205, 209-214 (D.C.Cir.), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 860 , 84 S.Ct. 125 , 11 L.Ed.2d 86 (1963), where the forcible entry may have been to aid an unconscious or dying woman, who was the victim of an abortion, see generally People v. Teams, 20 A.D.2d 803 , 248 N.Y.S.2d 477 (2d Dept. 1964), upholding a body search of the defendant by officers responding to two anonymous calls th…
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Wayne
v.
United States
v.
United States
No. 309.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Oct 14, 1963.
375 U.S. 860
Henry Lincoln Johnson, Jr. for petitioner. Solicitor General Cox, Assistant Attorney General Miller, Beatrice Rosenberg and Robert G. May-sack for the United States.
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Citer courts: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial… (1)
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Certiorari denied.