LAW 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Exigent Circumstance, Arrest Warrant, Bloody Knife
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Case #1: police see s rob a store; they chase him, he runs into house, police follow. Case #1(a): police see s rob a store; they chase s who runs into a house. S runs through his house and out the back. Case #1(b): s runs through a stranger"s house and out the back. Random stranger is sitting at table doing cocaine: yes. The police are legitimately in the place even if in a stranger"s house and whatever they see in there is fine. Case #2: police enter s"s apartment w/ arrest warrant but no search warrant. They open drawer to see if clothes in dresser. Leave and get a warrant then search home: probably not legitimate, should have gotten a search warrant too. Legitimately in place when looking for guy but they weren"t looking for the guy. Arrest warrant doesn"t let you look through dresser drawers.