State v. W. Case

Summary

The Court affirmed the denial of suppression, holding that officers reasonably entered the defendant’s home under Montana’s community-caretaker doctrine in response to an apparent suicide emergency and that probable cause arose when the encounter escalated into an assault investigation. The Court also affirmed the denial of a new trial because the undisclosed information about the officer’s prior shooting incident was not material under the objective reasonable-apprehension standard. The Court concluded that disclosure would not have created a reasonable probability of a different outcome.