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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided Sabbe v. Washington County, a case that made its way to the Circuit after law enforcement responded to a disturbance call and executed a PIT maneuver, in attempts to seize a hostile individual from their own private property. On appeal, the Ninth Circuit considered the officers’ emergency response protocols, the warrantless entry to the property, and […]

In United States v. Ramos, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals recently considered challenges concerning the scope of the community-caretaking exception as it applies to warrantless inventory searches of vehicles. Isaac Ramos faced arrest following an altercation at a convenience store. His truck, which was parked in the store’s lot, was impounded, and a subsequent inventory search of the vehicle uncovered a machine gun

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently decided United States v. Maxwell, a case that challenges the scope of the Exigent Circumstances doctrine during a 90 second, warrantless search at an Illinois apartment complex. After gunshots led to an urgent 911 call from the apartment complex, police, relying on the Emergency Aid Doctrine, made immediate entry into Tyrone Maxwell’s apartment; Unit