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BENCH BLOG: Community caretaker function case highlights decline of high court
A majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court justices expanded the contours of the community-caretaker exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement even while embarrassing themselves through the way they reached their decision.
Motor Vehicles – OWI — community caretaker function
2011AP813-CR, 2011AP814 State v. Gracia
2010AP484-CR State v. Toliver
Search and Seizure Community caretaker function Ashley Toliver appeals her judgment of conviction on the basis that the trial court erroneously denied her earlier motion to suppress evidence. She argues that her Fourth Amendment rights were violated on two occasions: when a police officer opened her purse to look for identification after finding it on […]
2010AP895-CR State v. Ultsch
Search and Seizure Warrantless home entry; community caretaker function Where police officers observed a damaged building and a nearby damaged vehicle covered in snow, parked in a driveway and partially blocking the road, and then entered the private residence that the driveway led to, those circumstances did not give rise to the community caretaker exception […]
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