What are the consequences of a "doorway arrest" where police without an arrest warrant enter a person's home and arrest the person who opens the door?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Watkins, 26 Cal.App.4th 19, 31 Cal.Rptr.2d 452 (Cal. App. 1994):

"Doorway arrests"--where police without an arrest warrant knock on a door, then arrest the person who opens it--have been the subject of numerous cases, with widely differing results partly attributable to their particular facts. (See United States v. McCraw (4th Cir.1990) 920 F.2d 224, 228-230 and 229-230, fn. 5 [warrantless arrest inside hotel room unconstitutional where defendant opened door halfway in response to officers' knock, then tried to shut it], and cases cited; State v. Morse (1984) 125 N.H. 403, 480 A.2d 183, 185-187, and cases cited.) There are several unique factual wrinkles here, such as it was Munford's girlfriend, not Munford himself, who opened the door. 6

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