I’m asking purely hypothetically, here. It’s an intellectual exercise.\u00a0 No hint of “legal advice” is being solicited, and I acknowledge that you, a member of the Bar, will not be providing any.<\/p>\n
1. Under what circumstances may police enter a home?<\/strong>\u00a0 I mean, short of hot pursuit?\u00a0 I’m aware that if someone invites <\/em>the police into their home of their own free will, it’s “consent”. 3. Hypothetically<\/strong>, if a minor (with no parent present in the home) specifically tells the police to wait at the door<\/em>, may the police enter the house?<\/p>\n Again – I am asking purely as an intellectual exercise, on behalf of someone else.<\/p>\n Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m asking purely hypothetically, here. It’s an intellectual exercise.\u00a0 No hint of “legal advice” is being solicited, and I acknowledge that you, a member of the Bar, will not be providing any. 1. Under what circumstances may police enter a home?\u00a0 I mean, short of hot pursuit?\u00a0 I’m aware that if someone invites the police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Who may give “consent” to enter a home?\u00a0 <\/strong>Specifically, may a minor with no responsible adult present in the house give consent?<\/p>\n