Soldo v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “The State submits that the scurrying around by the occupant when the police knocked at the door and announced their presence supplied justification for a warrantless search.... We reject this rationale.... Police could approach a dwelling, armed only with their own subjective suspicion that illegal activity was afoot, and wait for some suspicious movement, thereby giving them justification to break down the door and burst into the dwelling. Officers then would be equipped with the power to conduct any warrantless quest for evidence of guilt or of crime. Consequently, the suspicious movement which occurred when the police announced their presence cannot supply the exigent circumstances for the warrantless search.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 684 So. 2d 903 - Levine v. State