SCOTUSBlog: Justices to consider whether “hot pursuit” justifies entering a home without a warrant

ScotusBlog: Justices to consider whether “hot pursuit” justifies entering the home without a warrant (“At issue in Lange v. California is whether, when police are pursuing someone for a misdemeanor, that is always an ‘exigent circumstance’ that will allow the officer to follow the suspect into a house without a warrant…Ten different ‘friend of the court’ briefs were filed in support of Lange, representing a wide range of views – everything from the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to a group of gun owners.”)

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