650 F. Supp. 2d 932 - Coates v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The undisputed facts indicate that there [was no threat to the Coates children] confronting Officer Glandon. While there is evidence of a hotline call, the only descriptions of the hotline call indicate that it was a report of children playing outside unattended.... [T]here was no urgency in the conduct of that investigation.... The parties agree that, at the time Coates revoked consent, the officers knew that the children were not in the home.... The officers apparently did not believe Coates herself to be a danger to the children ... [And] do not argue that Coates’s agitation alone created exigent circumstances independently allowing the officers to remain in the house.... They could have attempted to obtain a warrant. They did not. The officers raise no argument that they left Coates’s house within a reasonable time of being ordered to leave: there is evidence that they did not leave for more than ten minutes after consent was revoked, and only upon Clevenger’s request. They were in violation of the Fourth Amendment when they remained in the house for an unreasonable time after consent was revoked.”

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   e.g. Coates v. Powell

2. “shall contact the appropriate law enforcement agency immediately upon receipt of a report which [Children’s Division] personnel determine merits an investigation and provide such agency with a detailed description of the report received. In such cases the local division office shall request the assistance of the local law enforcement agency in all aspects of the investigation of the complaint.”

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   e.g. Coates v. Powell

3. “[t]he appropriate law enforcement agency shall ... assist the division in the investigation.” Id. 4 . The court primarily relied on Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U.S. 103 , 126 S.Ct. 1515 , 164 L.Ed.2d 208 (2006) and Gates v. Texas Dep’t of Protective & Reg. Servs., 537 F.3d 404 (5th Cir.2008). Although dicta in Georgia states that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Coates v. Powell