State v. Gibson

OPINION

WINFREE, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

In this appeal we consider the long-standing emergency aid exception to the general requirement that a search warrant be obtained prior to police entry into a residence. Today we establish that the Alaska Constitution's standards for justifying the doctrine's application go beyond those required by the *648United States Constitution, and we adopt the standards our court of appeals first implemented in Gallmeyer v. State,1 We then consider whether the court of appeals correctly applied the doctrine when it reversed the trial court's ruling that the doctrine…