A home’s open door on a stormy spring evening was not an invitation for police to search the premises, the state Superior Court has ruled.
A unanimous three-judge panel said that a Centre County trial court erred in ruling that a door left ajar during a storm constituted exigent circumstances to justify a State College, Pa., police officer’s warrantless entry of a home that led to the seizure of drug paraphernalia.
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