Legal Opinion
Maryland v. Buie
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 5, 1990No. 88-1369PublishedCited by 1,755 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
A “protective sweep” is a quick and limited search of premises, incident to an arrest and conducted to protect the safety of police officers or others. It is narrowly confined to a cursory visual inspection of those places in which a person might be hiding. In this case we must decide what level of justification is required by the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments before police officers, while effecting the arrest of a suspect in his home pursuant to an arrest warrant, may conduct a warrantless protective sweep of all or part of the premises. The Court of Appeals of Maryland held that a…
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