The relevance of securing the scene is unclear so long as the killer is still at large — especially if, as the Court speculates, he may be a spree killer.
How later courts described this case
- The relevance of securing the scene is unclear so long as the killer is still at large — especially if, as the Court speculates, he may be a spree killer.
- “The Court said nothing at all that would remotely suggest that whether the victim was in need of medical attention was in any way relevant to whether there was an ‘ongoing emergency’ ”
- examining the threat to the victim, police, and the public
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
WEAVER, J.
{dissenting). I dissent from this Court’s decision to reverse the Court of Appeals and remand for a new trial. I would affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the reasons stated in its unpublished opinion on remand, specifically, that the declarant’s statements were made in the course of a police interrogation under circumstances objectively indicating that the interrogation’s primary purpose was to enable police assistance in an ongoing emergency.