Is a search of a person's home during an in-home arrest permitted?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Ulloa, D065341 (Cal. App. 2015):

premises, incident to an arrest and conducted to protect the safety of police officers or others." (Maryland v. Buie (1990) 494 U.S. 325, 327 (Buie).) Such a search is permitted "in conjunction with an in-home arrest when the searching officer possesses a reasonable belief based on specific and articulable facts that the area to be swept harbors an individual posing a danger to those on the arrest scene." (Id. at p. 337.)

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