Supreme Court sides with man who said police illegally seized firearms from his home without a warrant
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The Supreme Court on Monday wiped away a lower court decision that held that law enforcement could enter a Rhode Island man's home and seize his firearms without a warrant after his wife expressed fear that he might harm himself.
A lower court had allowed the search, holding that the decision to take the firearms without a warrant fell within the Fourth Amendment's "community caretaking exception." But Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for a unanimous Supreme Court, held that the lower court's broad interpretation of the exception "goes beyond anything this Court has recognized."More Related News