2 Or. App. 163 - State v. Steffes’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"[T]he police knew that the defendant had just been released from the penitentiary and that the hotel clerks who were robbed and stated that the robber used a gun in each case. Thus they had reasonable grounds to believe that tarrying in the hall outside the defendant's door might expose them to danger. In determining the lawfulness of the entry and the existence of probable cause, the court should concern itself only with what the officers reasonably believed at the time of their entry. There were exigent circumstances in this case which justified the officers in entering Staffes' room without first announcing their purpose." 2 Or. App. at 169 , 465 P.2d 905 . (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ford