D.Minn.: 911 call about two men entering house with guns couldn’t be corroborated at all at scene; entry for protective sweep unreasonable

“The information provided to the police was that a caller called 911 and said ‘there’s two men that came inside the house with guns.’ (Transcript at 9.) The police were also given the address of the subject house. (Id.) Based on the testimony of Officer Anderson, that is the only information they received from dispatch.” Officers arrived, heard and saw nothing, and entered doing a protective sweep, finding defendant asleep with a shotgun near him. The entry was without an objective showing of exigency. United States v. Seymour, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 46568 (D. Minn. March 28, 2017).

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