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Sheriff's deputies went to his home in Tamarac, about five miles from the gun range, but got no answer when they knocked on the door, according to the Sun-Sentinel. The officers went into the home and found the man's 45-year-old wife dead in a bedroom.

In this particular case, the police would certainly not have gained normal access to the house since the wife was already dead. The story implies, though, that the officers were not aware of her state. Were they in the right to go into the home anyway? If the wife had been alive and out shopping with a dead cell phone battery (i.e. unreachable) when they stopped by the house, did they have a reasonable right to enter the home without permission of the homeowner?