United States v. Conerd, No. 15-3566 (8th Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseDefendant plead guilty to being a felon and unlawful drug user in possession of ammunition. On appeal, defendant challenged the district court's denial of his motion to suppress the ammunition recovered from his residence. The court concluded that the officer's entry onto the curtilage of defendant's residence was permissible under the emergency-aid exception to the warrant requirement. In this case, the officer was told that defendant had assaulted someone and was in the process of assaulting another in the basement of defendant's residence.
Court Description: Wollman, Author, with Loken and Benton, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Criminal law. Police officer's entry onto the curtilage of defendant's residence was permissible under the emergency-aid exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement. [ July 15, 2016
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