United States v. Loni Tepiew

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

Loni Tepiew entered a conditional guilty plea to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury after she confessed to beating her toddler son in the head with her fist and shoe. On appeal, she contends that because her confession came after a warrantless entry by police into her home, it should have been suppressed. Because we find that the warrantless entry was justified by the emergency aid doctrine, an exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement, we find that the district court properly denied her motion to suppress.

I. BACKGROUND

On a Monday…