Police can’t make a warrantless entry into a home in the guise of community caretakers, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in a groundbreaking case.
Limiting a doctrine often used to justify automobile searches, the court said that “in the context of the search of a home, it does not override the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment or the carefully crafted and well-recognized exceptions to that requirement.”
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