{"id":11872,"date":"2014-06-05T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11872"},"modified":"2014-06-05T01:44:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T06:44:49","slug":"abaj-courts-in-a-muddle-over-4th-amendments-community-caretaking-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11872","title":{"rendered":"ABAJ: Courts in a muddle over 4th Amendment\u2019s community caretaking exception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/magazine\/article\/courts_in_a_muddle_over_4th_amendments_community_caretaking_exception\">Courts in a muddle over 4th Amendment\u2019s community caretaking exception<\/a> by David L. Hudson (Aug. 1, 2013):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some view it as a monstrous leviathan that could devour much of search-and-seizure protections. Others view it as simply a common-sense, rational justification for what police must do when performing emergency functions.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the community caretaking exception to the Fourth Amendment has prompted confusion among courts over whether it must be limited to vehicles, or whether it gives police an additional reason to enter homes without a warrant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe name \u2018community caretaking exception\u2019 is seductive because it helps convince the public that a search is more justified or proper than it really is,\u201d says Little Rock, Ark., attorney John Wesley Hall Jr., author of the treatise Search and Seizure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: Courts in a muddle over 4th Amendment\u2019s community caretaking exception by David L. Hudson (Aug. 1, 2013): Some view it as a monstrous leviathan that could devour much of search-and-seizure protections. Others view it as simply a common-sense, rational &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11872\">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-11872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emergency-exigency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11873,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11872\/revisions\/11873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}