Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Court Reminds Cops Lance Cannon & Daniel Gonzalez They Can’t Create Own Exigency To Justify Warrantless Search

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Appeals Court Reminds Cops They Can’t Create Their Own Exigency To Justify A Warrantless Search

22 April 2022

A case involving a DUI stop that somehow morphed into the search of a passenger has earned a couple of cops a rebuke from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and a couple of handy reminders in a precedential decision that will make it that much tougher for law enforcement officers in this circuit to get away with stuff like this in the future. Here’s how the stop unfolded, as recounted in the Third Circuit decision [PDF]: Around 2:00 a.m. on February 23, 2019, Philadelphia Police Officers Lance Cannon and Daniel Gonzalez were patrolling North Philadelphia’s 35th District, an area ...

Appeals Court Reminds Cops They Can’t Create Their Own Exigency To Justify A Warrantless Search

A case involving a DUI stop that somehow morphed into the search of a passenger has earned a couple of cops a rebuke from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and a couple of handy reminders in a pre…

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