State v. Comer

OPINION

ORME, Judge:

¶ 1 This appeal addresses, inter alia, the issue of whether a report of domestic violence from an identified citizen informant triggers the emergency aid exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement, permitting warrantless entry into a home even absent probable cause. We conclude it does not. However, we determine that the warrantless police entry into the residence in this case was nonetheless lawful because it was supported by probable cause and accompanied by exigent circumstances.

BACKGROUND

¶ 2 “We recite the facts in the ‘light most favorable to the trial…