[dcwusmc]

A search without a warrant in NO case should be valid. Period.

[KrisKrinkle]

“A search without a warrant in NO case should be valid. Period.”

I agree in regard to post incident investigation.

But I thought the discussion was about a response to domestic violence as an ongoing activity and the search of premises for the particular location of the violence in order to stop it.

Does what you wrote mean the police should await a warrant before searching a house from which they hear gunfire and screams?

[muawiyah]

Nonsense. Many searches are quite reasonable. For instance, we are out searching through the neighborhood for what may be YOUR BODY. I look up at a two story house and there you are face pressed up against the window and maybe you aren't dead yet.

The perp who has been beating you is visible in another part of the room.

I stand and wait until he is done and you are dead and tossed out the window then holler "Hey, here's that body"!