{"id":3435,"date":"2010-06-05T00:12:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T17:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2010-06-05T00:12:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T17:12:16","slug":"ca-police-can-enter-without-warrant-if-pets-in-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/ca-police-can-enter-without-warrant-if-pets-in-peril\/","title":{"rendered":"CA police can enter without warrant if pets in peril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A report of a dog crying in distress can constitute an emergency that justifies police entering a home without a warrant, a state appeals court ruled Thursday in upholding a Los Angeles County man&#8217;s conviction for animal cruelty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In appealing Keith Chung&#8217;s conviction and 16-month prison sentence, his lawyer argued that officers may disregard the normal requirement that they obtain a search warrant only if a human life is at stake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But the Second District Court of Appeal said that although pets are considered personal property, protecting them is a legitimate government concern.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/06\/03\/BA8Q1DPK7V.DTL#ixzz0puAcJD1w\" target=\"_blank\">Read more: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report of a dog crying in distress can constitute an emergency that justifies police entering a home without a warrant, a state appeals court ruled Thursday in upholding a Los Angeles County man&#8217;s conviction for animal cruelty. In appealing Keith Chung&#8217;s conviction and 16-month prison sentence, his lawyer argued that officers may disregard the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}