The U.S. Supreme Court next month will hear arguments about warrantless home entries, borne out of the case of an Anaconda man who was suicidal when local police entered his home, shot him and arrested him.

William Trevor Case, 52, was convicted of assault on an officer for threatening police with a firearm, and is serving out a 10-year sentence in a private prison in Arizona under contract with the Montana Department of Corrections.

Case has sought to undo his conviction on constitutional grounds, arguing that the Fourth Amendment should have prevented officers from entering his home without probable cause. Prosecutors and state attorneys, meanwhile, have argued that requiring probable cause to intervene in an emergency could potentially prevent life-saving measures.

After the Montan

See Full Page