The Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment's emergency aid exception permits police officers to enter a home without a warrant when they have an "objectively reasonable basis for believing" that an occupant is seriously injured or imminently threatened with such injury. The Court rejected both a lower "reasonable suspicion" standard and a "probable cause" standard, reaffirming the standard established in Brigham City v. Stuart. The Court found that officers had an objectively reasonable basis to enter William Case's home based on reports that he was threatening suicide and may have already shot himself, and therefore affirmed the Montana Supreme Court's judgment upholding the warrantless entry.

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