Legal Opinion
Hill v. Walsh
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 27, 2018No. 17-1669PPublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
In this opinion, we bring our circuit law into conformity with the Supreme Court's precedent on the emergency aid exception to the Fourth Amendment requirement that a warrant be obtained before police entry into homes. We explain below.
On March 3, 2015, Matthew Hill, age 28, overdosed and was taken to Morton Hospital in Taunton, Massachusetts. The next day, several Taunton police officers arrived at his parents' home to escort Matthew to a state court civil-commitment hearing. On Matthew's sister's application, a Taunton district judge had issued a warrant earlier that…
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