People v. Pou
Annotate this CaseAfter defendant plead guilty to possession of ecstasy for sale, he challenged the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence seized as a result of a warrantless entry and search of his home by law enforcement officers. In this case, the officers were responding to a report of a screaming woman across the street from 2314 Jupiter Drive. The officers, instead, went to the 2314 Jupiter Drive location, not the location across the street. The court concluded that the officers' initial entry and search was justified under the emergency aid exception to the warrant requirement because the officers heard male and female voices arguing inside the house and entered the home to search for the screaming female victim inside. The court explained that the fact that the officers mistakenly searched the wrong location does not undermine the reasonableness of their decision to conduct the search based on the information they had at the time. Accordingly, the court affirmed the conviction.
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