North Carolina Court of Appeals Finds Exigent Circumstances to Enter Home Without a Warrant to Conduct Protective Sweep for Officer Safety and to Prevent Destruction of Evidence

…to the warrant requirement: (1) obtaining consent to enter from an appropriate person, (2) probable cause and exigent circumstances, (3) making a protective sweep of a home for dangerous people…

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Conducting Surveillance and Collecting Location Data in a Post-Carpenter World, Part I

…In addition, the court concluded that the defendant consented to the college’s internet use policy, which authorized the college to collect and disclose internet data received through its network connections….

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Case Summaries – North Carolina Court of Appeals (July 7, 2020)

…safety. The defendant stated he was not armed and did not consent to a frisk. When the officer said he was “just going to pat [Defendant] down,” the defendant said,…

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…United States v. Robertson, an interesting case about whether consent to search was voluntary when several officers went to a bus shelter while investigating a suspicious foot chase, asked an…