
A Warrant establishes the legal foundation for an Arrest. A Warrantless Arrest is deemed violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and also represents Arbitrary Arrest in violation of Human Rights in ratified International Law.


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Example #1Article: 9th Circuit: Warrantless arrest of felon is alright |
Police with a warrant to search for a suspect have authority to arrest an armed felon unnamed in the warrant who resides at the same address, the 9th Circuit decided.
Bobby Der Enslin argued U.S. marshals had no constitutional right to arrest him on a gun possession charge when marshals had a warrant for another person
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Example #2
9th Circuit rules warrantless arrest justified by standoff
Police need not obtain an arrest warrant before taking a suspect into custody after a 12-hour armed standoff, even though exigent circumstances may have dissipated, the en banc 9th Circuit has ruled.
The defendant was in his home when he pointed a gun at a security guard investigating loud music
in another apartment. When police arrived, he was visibly drunk, belligerent and threatened to shoot police if he came on or near his property.
After a 12-hour standoff during which the defendant retreated into his apartment for several hours, the police arrested him.
He sued under [section]1983, claiming that the police should have obtained a warrant because the exigency had dissipated by the time they arrested him.
A U.S. District Court and the 9th Circuit agreed.
But the en banc panel reversed.
"This armed standoff was a single Fourth Amendment event. ... [The defendant] threatened the officers shortly after they arrived, and retained full control of his eighteen guns and ammunition until the end. The entire standoff was an uninterrupted, fluid engagement between [him] and the police. ... In sum, no event of Fourth Amendment significance occurred that would re-trigger the warrant requirement and compel the police to inquire as to whether exigent circumstances still existed. ...
"[S]uggesting that a magistrate should be telling police in the middle of the standoff that they must withdraw or what tactics are permissible does not strike us as a reasonable role for a judicial officer under the Fourth Amendment," the court said.
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit. Fisher v. San Jose, No. 04-16095. March 11, 2009. Lawyers USA No. 993-554.
Credit: Lawyers USA Staff

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