When Are the Police Allowed to Search Your Home Without a Warrant?
In a recent case called Michigan v. Fisher, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a police officer may enter a home without a search warrant to render emergency assistance to an injured occupant or to protect an occupant from imminent injury. An article that I posted on my Federal Criminal Lawyer website examines the Fisher case.
Entering a home to provide assistance generally does not also entail a search of the home. How exactly are you relating these two, since there is a pretty clear distinction in my mind.
Attorney Chapman's response:
The point of the Fisher case is that if the police inadvertently discover evidence of a crime while rendering emergency assistance within a home, they are lawfully allowed to seize that evidence or arrest the person who committed the crime.