{"id":63961,"date":"2026-04-30T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63961"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:02:10","slug":"two-on-suicide-calls-as-exigency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63961","title":{"rendered":"Two on suicide calls as exigency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant\u2019s houseguest called the local suicide hotline, and a patrol officer came by the house, and the guest let him in. The officer smelled marijuana, but didn\u2019t act on it right away because of the suicide call. The entry was based on exigent circumstances. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowacourts.gov\/courtcases\/25689\/embed\/CourtAppealsOpinion\">State v. Swanson<\/a>, 2026 Iowa App. LEXIS 400 (Apr. 29, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plaintiff texted his mother-in-law to say that he and his wife committed suicide together. She called the police, and they came to the house and entered. They reentered to get medications for a potential overdose. The entries were valid. <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/252240np.pdf\">Thivener v. Nero<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 12303 (3d Cir. Apr. 29, 2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s houseguest called the local suicide hotline, and a patrol officer came by the house, and the guest let him in. The officer smelled marijuana, but didn\u2019t act on it right away because of the suicide call. The entry was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63961\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emergency-exigency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63961","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=63961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63962,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63961\/revisions\/63962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}