The state troopers were executing a traffic warrant on another person when they made the arrest.
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday vacated the gun possession conviction of a man state troopers chased into a neighboring home during the planned arrest of another person.
The high court found several problems with the events surrounding Bookman’s arrest, but stopped short - as Bookman’s lawyers had argued - of creating a “bright line” rule on how police execute arrest warrants in traffic cases. They did have a warrant to arrest the man issued by the Deptford Township Municipal Court, issued for failing to appear for a matter four months earlier.
The high court agreed, first saying that the traffic warrant allows police to enter the subject’s home, if necessary, not a neighbor’s home. And, the “hot pursuit” doctrine applies in cases only when police believe a person might destroy evidence or cause imminent threat of harm.
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