Motion to Suppress

By: Derek Hawkins//June 13, 2017//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Loni M. Tepiew

Case No.: 16-2543

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and EASTERBROOK and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Motion to Suppress

Loni Tepiew entered a conditional guilty plea to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury after she confessed to beating her toddler son in the head with her fist and shoe. On appeal, she contends that because her confession came after a warrantless entry by police into her home, it should have been suppressed. Because we find that the warrantless entry was justified by the emergency aid doctrine, an exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement, we find that the district court properly denied her motion to suppress.

Affirmed

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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