Two on emergency: DV call and multiple erratic 911 calls threatening to use a gun

A domestic violence call from an hysterical woman at a hotel room justified a warrantless entry into the room when the police could finally locate her room. Commonwealth v. Caple, 2015 PA Super 159, 2015 Pa. Super. LEXIS 425 (July 24, 2015).

Where plaintiff made several erratic phone calls to 911 and officers entered his house, Tased him, and arrested him, the officers were entitled to qualified immunity as to his Fourth Amendment warrantless entry claim because it was not clearly established that no exigent circumstance existed when the officers entered a residence in response to multiple erratic 911 calls from there and when they believed that someone inside may have threatened the use of a gun. His excessive force claim survived because whether he resisted or not and whether he was given an opportunity to comply with commands before, and while, being Tased were material facts in dispute. Gradisher v. City of Akron, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 12814 (6th Cir. July 24, 2015).*