{"id":50788,"date":"2021-12-15T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50788"},"modified":"2021-12-15T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:06:00","slug":"s-d-w-va-officers-cant-claim-exigency-for-defs-response-to-false-assertion-they-had-a-sw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50788","title":{"rendered":"S.D.W.Va.: Officers can&#8217;t claim exigency for def&#8217;s response to false assertion they had a SW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Officers can\u2019t falsely claim they have a search warrant and then use the target\u2019s response to claim exigency for a warrantless entry into a home. United States v. Lark, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 238720 (S.D.W.Va. Dec. 14, 2021):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Importantly, on the audio recording from the night of the search, an officer clearly yells the false claim that police have a search warrant during the police&#8217;s forced entry of Mr. Lark&#8217;s home. [ECF No. 57-3, at 9:21]; see King, 563 U.S. at 469 (holding the exigent circumstances exception does not apply when police gain entry to a defendant&#8217;s home through actual and threatened violations of the Fourth Amendment). Given these facts, I find that there were no exigent circumstances that justified officers&#8217; forced entry of Mr. Lark&#8217;s home. Because I find that no exception to the warrant requirement applies, I order the evidence seized after officers&#8217; illegal entry to Mr. Lark&#8217;s home be suppressed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers can\u2019t falsely claim they have a search warrant and then use the target\u2019s response to claim exigency for a warrantless entry into a home. United States v. Lark, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 238720 (S.D.W.Va. Dec. 14, 2021):<\/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-50788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emergency-exigency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50788","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=50788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50789,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50788\/revisions\/50789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}