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Warrantless Entry Into Home OK When Searching for Child's Custodian

By Jonathan Byrne

US v. Taylor: This is an odd Fourth Amendment case. An officer is called to a parking lot in Richmond by a taxi driver who has found a 4-year-old girl wandering the streets alone. The driver pointed out a nearby row house to the officer which the girl had told the driver was her home. The driver and girl had gone to the house, where the front door was open, but nobody inside responded to his inquiries. The officer talked to the girl, who said there was nobody at home to take care of her and that she was waiting on a bus to take her to day care. The officer and the girl returned to the house. When nobody answered the officer's inquiry, the girl went inside. The officer followed. He eventually went to the second floor, where he heard a male voice from a bedroom...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Circuit Blog on November 15, 2010 (boomark / email).