Police officers don\u2019t always need a warrant to enter your home. Reality isn\u2019t quite like TV.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile many people enjoy watching police shows on TV that deal with how the cops apprehend a criminal and how they have to get a warrant to go to a person\u2019s place to arrest them, etc., this isn\u2019t always the reality,\u201d said Miller Leonard, a Denver federal criminal defense lawyer and state criminal defense lawyer.<\/p>\n
On TV the officers are usually greeted at the door by someone that says \u201cWhere\u2019s your warrant?\u201d It\u2019s a fair question, because in \u2018most\u2019 circumstances, the police \u2018do\u2019 need a warrant to enter a person\u2019s property. However, there are exceptions to this rule, as there are with most things that deal with legal matters.<\/p>\n
One exception is something called an exigent circumstance and it lets the police enter without a warrant, or if they have a knock and announce warrant, go in without (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police officers don\u2019t always need a warrant to enter your home. Reality isn\u2019t quite like TV. \u201cWhile many people enjoy watching police shows on TV that deal with how the cops apprehend a criminal and how they have to get…<\/span><\/p>\n