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Warrantless Search Following 15-Hour Standoff Was Valid

Mar 11, 2026

Exigent circumstances justified the warrantless entry by members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department SWAT team into an apartment—after a 15-hour standoff—to apprehend a man who, earlier, fatally shot a Pomona police officer who was holding a ballistics shield while others used a battering ram, Div. Eight of this district’s Court of Appeal declared yesterday.