{"id":45010,"date":"2020-08-19T15:49:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T20:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45010"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T20:50:04","slug":"ca8-community-caretaking-entry-still-justified-protective-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45010","title":{"rendered":"CA8: Community caretaking entry still justified protective sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police came to defendant\u2019s house for a community caretaking call, and they heard a person inside calling for help. They knew defendant was on probation for firearms, that he had a history of drug use, and that he had surveillance cameras. They entered and saw a woman on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. A brief protective sweep of the premises was reasonable. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/20\/08\/192232U.pdf\">United States v. Hanuman<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 26116 (8th Cir. Aug. 18, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officers entered plaintiff\u2019s home on a mental health emergency, and the entry and their subsequent actions didn\u2019t exceed the scope of the justification for the entry. They acted reasonably. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/20\/08\/192512P.pdf\">Graham v. Barnette<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 25969 (8th Cir. Aug. 17, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s broad consent permitted a full search of his cell phone. The consent logically permitted the police to review the evidence afterward, too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/19\/19-20427-CV0.pdf\">United States v. Gallegos-Espinal<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 26108 (5th Cir. Aug. 17, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police came to defendant\u2019s house for a community caretaking call, and they heard a person inside calling for help. They knew defendant was on probation for firearms, that he had a history of drug use, and that he had surveillance &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45010\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,74,24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-community-caretaking-function","category-consent","category-protective-sweep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45011,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45010\/revisions\/45011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}