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Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Police Can Enter A Home To Seize Guns Without A Warrant
Forbes ^ | February 5 | Evan Gerstmann

Posted on 02/06/2021 10:52:31 AM PST by PghBaldy

The 4th Amendment right against warrantless searches of a person’s home is a pillar of Americans’ constitutional liberties. Before a police officer, or any other government official, can enter your home, they must show a judge that they have probable cause that they will discover specific evidence of a crime.

There are some limited exceptions to this right. There is an “exigent circumstances” exception. If a police officer looks through a home’s window and sees a person about to stab another person, the officer can burst through the door to prevent the attack. There is also the “emergency aid” exception. If the officer looked through the same window and saw the resident collapsing from an apparent heart attack, the officer could run into the house to administer aid. Neither of these cases violates the 4th Amendment and few would argue that it should be otherwise.

However, there is a broader cousin to these amendments called the “community caretaking” exception.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2a; 2ndamendment; 4a; 4thamendment; banglist; fourthamendment; guns; illegalsearch; illegalseizure; rkba; scotus; search; searchwarrant; secondamendment; seizure
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Can't think of anything intelligent to say on this, though that never stops me usually.
1 posted on 02/06/2021 10:52:31 AM PST by PghBaldy
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To: PghBaldy

Choose wisely grasshopper


2 posted on 02/06/2021 10:54:03 AM PST by Recompennation
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To: PghBaldy

The fourth amendment is being chipped away to nothing.


3 posted on 02/06/2021 10:54:06 AM PST by Fido969 (,i.)
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To: PghBaldy

If you have a bumstock, it might be acceptable.


4 posted on 02/06/2021 10:55:13 AM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: PghBaldy

Everyone knows where this is is going and the inevitable blowback.


5 posted on 02/06/2021 10:55:15 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (FIBBERS: Earned distrust is disabling.)
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To: PghBaldy

Can’t seize guns that are lost to a boating accident a few years ago.


6 posted on 02/06/2021 10:56:39 AM PST by Bayard
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To: PghBaldy

A warrant doesn’t just protect the occupants, it also protects the home invaders. They may not want to leave the precinct without it.


7 posted on 02/06/2021 11:01:21 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: PghBaldy
FAKE KILLING ? ?
8 posted on 02/06/2021 11:01:26 AM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: PghBaldy

It is times like this that I go back to this video clip and it’s perfect as it pertains to this thread.

https://youtu.be/DNDcd1Fe5lg


9 posted on 02/06/2021 11:01:51 AM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: PghBaldy
However, there is a broader cousin to these amendments called the “community caretaking” exception. It originally derives from a case in which the police took a gun out of the trunk of an impounded vehicle without first obtaining a warrant. The Supreme Court held that there is a community caretaking exception to the 4th Amendment’s warrant requirement because police perform “community caretaking functions, totally divorced from the detection, investigation, or acquisition of evidence relating to the violation of a criminal statute." The Court held that police activity in furtherance of these functions does not violate the 4th Amendment as long as it is executed in a “reasonable” manner.

I would think that "community caretaking" stops at someone's front door.

Since Griswold, the Third Amendment prevents agents of the government from monitoring a person's activities inside their home. "Community caretaking" inside one's home would be unconstitutional under the Third Amendment.

-PJ

10 posted on 02/06/2021 11:03:54 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

It’s called, “new gun confiscation law results in massive civil disobedience and noncompliance.

I give you CT, NY, MA, & NJ. The govs still haven’t sent out their flying monkeys to seize semi-auto’s.


11 posted on 02/06/2021 11:03:57 AM PST by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: PghBaldy

Can’t think of anything intelligent to say on this, though that never stops me usually. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

How about:

“I don’t have any firearms.

I was taking them all out to a camp and the boat upset,

Danged if I didn’t lose the whole kit and caboodle in 2oo feet of water.”

Many hidden root cellars across this land, in rather obscure locations are about to be opened renovated and used.

Thanks for the warning Attorney Cosmoline.


12 posted on 02/06/2021 11:04:22 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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Bookmarking


13 posted on 02/06/2021 11:06:08 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Only a moronic, suicidal group would try a Great Purge 2021 on an armed American. We're ready!)
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To: PghBaldy

Well, this is fairly disturbing.


14 posted on 02/06/2021 11:06:27 AM PST by Antihero101607
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To: PghBaldy

Hmmmm! With this SCOTUS? Approved. Next.


15 posted on 02/06/2021 11:11:14 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Bayard

“Can’t seize guns that are lost to a boating accident a few years ago.”

As long as you reported it at the time, you’re fine. If not, then you’re giving the police false information, which is a felony.


16 posted on 02/06/2021 11:11:52 AM PST by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: PghBaldy

Isn’t this “settled law”?


17 posted on 02/06/2021 11:12:45 AM PST by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956


18 posted on 02/06/2021 11:14:29 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Antihero101607
this is fairly disturbing

Concerning? yes.

Worrisome? Yep.

Troubling? absolutely.

But disturbing? That's a bit much.

19 posted on 02/06/2021 11:14:48 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: PghBaldy

“exigent circumstances” exception...
“emergency aid” exception,
“community caretaking” exception.

There’s always an “exception” to our Rights.


20 posted on 02/06/2021 11:15:20 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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