In some situations, the government seeks to enter a person’s home armed solely with an arrest warrant. Sometimes this is sufficient, but not always.
The simple answer is NO, unless there is a valid exception to the warrant requirement, and exceptions to the warrant requirement are narrowly drawn. It is a basic principle of the Fourth Amendment that searches and seizures inside a home without a wa…
When it comes to whether a person lawfully consented to a search of his or her home, in Connecticut — as elsewhere — the inquiry does not end with a simple “did you agree” to the government’s intrusion.
