Can the police enter my house without a warrant?

The police must obtain a search or arrest warrant before they enter your home. However, there are a few exceptions to the warrant requirement. One of these exceptions is if they claim that it was an emergency and if they didn’t enter your home the evidence of a crime would be destroyed or the alleged perpetrator would escape or someone within the home would be injured. However, the police have the burden or proving in court that the emergency really existed and is not something they just made up so they could search your house looking for evidence of a crime. Your lawyer needs to bring a motion to suppress evidence per Penal Code Section 1538.5 in an attempt to have the entry into your home without a warrant deemed unlawful.