Police may not “manufacture” an emergency situation to justify the warrantless search of a hotel room, a divided panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
The decision in United States v. Coles overturns a conviction for possession of crack cocaine and sharpens a split among the federal circuits in cases where police claim that a warrantless search was justified by “exigent circumstances.”
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