{"id":5796,"date":"2011-07-16T17:39:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T17:38:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T17:38:41","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5796","title":{"rendered":"MO: A 911 call about a dead body at one\u2019s house is consent to enter the house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 911 call about a dead body at one\u2019s house is consent to enter the house. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=47809\">Mayes v. State<\/a>, 2011 Mo. App. LEXIS 937 (Mo.App. July 13, 2011):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen Movant called 911 and requested emergency assistance, he consented to the entry of his home which, upon discovery of a dead body, became a crime scene warranting further investigation. [<a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=16669551084296332492&amp;q=957+S.W.2d+734&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,24\">State v. Johnston<\/a>, 957 S.W.2d 734, 742 (Mo banc. 1997).] The motion court cited a Texas case which made the same point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]hen a homeowner makes a 911 call and requests immediate assistance because of an emergency, he is indicating his consent to (1) the arrival and entry of the responding officers to resolve that emergency and, (2) absent any evidence of the revocation of that consent, an objectively reasonable limited investigation by the responding officers into the emergency that the homeowner reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=10390517917391895979&amp;q=226+S.W.3d+439&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,24\">Johnson v. State<\/a>, 226 S.W.3d 439, 444 (Tex.Crim.App. 2007). By making such a call, &#8220;surely the objectively reasonable homeowner envisions that the responding police will enter his home, view the scene, take pictures of that scene, and make a cursory search for relevant evidence directly relating to the homeowner&#8217;s emergency call.&#8221; Id. at 447.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}