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Exigent
Exigent meaning
Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action. | Demanding; requiring great effort.
Example sentences (7)
Exigent circumstance main Law enforcement officers may also conduct warrantless searches in several types of exigent circumstances where obtaining a warrant is dangerous or impractical.
In addition, vessels on public waterways of the state must remain underway at all times, unless exigent circumstances exist or anchoring to fish.
I think it becomes a search and subject to the same legal requirements - either a warrant or exigent circumstances.
So the Assistant Chief made the decision to declare “exigent circumstances,” and directed us to execute a no-knock dynamic entry with breach.
According to the Commissioner General of Prisons Nishan Dhanasinghe, several exigent procedures precedes the implementation of death penalty.
A separate legal doctrine allows warrantless searches in “exigent circumstances,” including whether the evidence — in this case, the motorcycle — might disappear if not looked for quickly.
There are exceptions or exigent circumstances such as an articulated need to disarm a suspect or searching a suspect who has already been arrested (Search Incident to an Arrest).