Although a warrant is generally required for police to enter a home or conduct a search, police are not required to seek a warrant if there are exigent circumstances requiring immediate attention – ...

Police must have probable cause as well as “exigent circumstances” in order to legally search a vehicle without a warrant, a divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.The 4-3 decision said the ...

The Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed a defendant's conviction and held that the commonwealth was not required to prove exigent circumstances when an officer had lawfully seized a firearm in a ...

Although warrantless searches are presumptively unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment, the Court has carved out exceptions to that general rule for (among other things) exigent circumstances, such ...

The Fourth Amendment protects us from random invasions of our homes by police, right? We know we're secure in our "persons, houses, papers, and effects" unless the cops demonstrate probable cause to a ...

Tuesday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow unsealed the operations plan for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “crime suppression” sweep, which took place this weekend in the West Valley.

Yesterday, a Columbus, Ohio police officer shot a man in the neck and cheek and wounded a woman after blindly firing into a closed door. The Columbus Dispatch reports that the officer knocked on the ...

Law enforcement officers in Massachusetts will now need to get a judge’s permission to ping cell phone locations during typical investigations, per a new Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling.