Consistent with the current judicial construction of the Fourth Amendment, an arrest warrant is required in which of the following circumstances where a police officer desires to make a valid arrest?

Question

A) Where an officer arrests after conducting a hot pursuit of a suspect who the officer had observed committing a felony.
B) Where the suspect is known to be sitting in the bedroom of her own home and where the officer knows that she is present and not threatening anyone and the officer has probable cause for her arrest.
C) Where the officer has observed the suspect, who seemed to be driving under the influence of alcohol, drive to her own home and enter an attached garage. Later,when the officer was allowed entry by a child, the officer arrested the impaired driver at the first opportunity (which happened to be inside her home).
D) All of the above require arrest warrants in order to produce valid arrests.
E) B and C require arrest warrants.

Answer 1

E