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California Court of Appeal: Unoccupied Running Vehicle Doesn’t Justify Warrantless Search of Residence
Loaded on May 15, 2020
by Douglas Ankney
published in Criminal Legal News
June, 2020, page 46
Filed under:
Warrantless Searches.
Location:
California.
by Douglas Ankney
Division One of the Fourth Appellate District of the California Court of Appeal ruled that an unoccupied vehicle left running in a driveway satisfied neither the “emergency aid exception” nor the “exigent circumstances exception” to justify the warrantless search of a residence. The Court further ruled that ...
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