Guererri v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “The facts here do not fairly suggest a motivation to apprehend and arrest Guererri or to seize evidence. The officers were not acting with law enforcement motivations; when they began their search, they had no reason to believe any crime had been committed or was being committed by Guererri in his home. The record is consistent with a good faith effort to aid potential victims of shotgun fire and with the officers’ primary concern for health and safety of any people that might be found in Guererri’s house.”

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

2. “[ujnder the second prong of the emergency doctrine test, officers must conduct the search primarily to achieve a community caretaking function, rather than to pursue a law enforcement objective.” Id. at 407 (citing Cady, 413 U.S. at 441 , 93 S.Ct. 2523 ). Later, in Blake v. State, 954 A.2d 315, 319 (Del.2008), again in the context of the emergency doctrine exception, we explained that”

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