United States Ninth Circuit

Police officers' actions did not fall within the "emergency exception" to the Fourth Amendment restriction on warrantless searches or seizures. Investigating a 911 phone call originating from room 105 of a large hotel, police had no reasonable basis to associate the possible emergency with defendant's adjacent hotel room.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/20/2004
• Published 01/20/2004

Judges

• BRUNETTI, Circuit Judge:, Before BRUNETTI, T.G. NELSON, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mary C. Geddes, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Anchorage, AK, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy M. Burgess, Assistant United States Attorney, and Mark Rosenbaum, Assistant United States Attorney, Anchorage, AK;  Marci I. Osborne, Esq., Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for appellee.