Steagald v. United States

Steagald v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 14, 1981 Decided April 21, 1981
Full case name	Gary Steagald v. United States
Citations	451 U.S. 204 (more) 101 S. Ct. 1642; 68 L. Ed. 2d 38
Case history
Prior	606 F.2d 540, 615 F.2d 642 (affirming district court's denial of motion to suppress and upholding convictions)
Holding
An arrest warrant is not sufficient under the Fourth Amendment to search the home of a third party unless exigent circumstances are present.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Marshall, joined by Brennan, Stewart, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens
Concurrence	Burger
Dissent	Rehnquist, joined by White
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. IV 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846

Steagald v. United States, 451 U.S. 204 (1981), is a United States Supreme Court case which held that, based on the Fourth Amendment, a police officer may not conduct a warrantless search of a third party's home in an attempt to apprehend the subject of an arrest warrant, absent consent or exigent circumstances.^[1]