Court Opinion

ID: 9472620
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 04:05:58.399422+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:43:02.768511
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WELLFORD, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur with the result reached and some of the reasoning of my brothers in this case. I write separately to express my view that under the circumstances known to the police officers concerning the very recent use and/or possession of suspected illegal weapons by defendant (and others) in a public park, there was no need for a warrant to enter on Morgan’s mother’s property to investigate and to attempt to question Morgan about his knowledge and/or involvement in the episode. Had the officers not used overly coercive tactics to draw Morgan out of the home therebyj indicating an intent to place him under custody equivalent to an arrest, I would! hold that the seizure in question was appro-i priate.
I find it unnecessary to decide whether a suspect standing in thé doorway of a private residence responding to a reasonable police investigation or inquiry may thereafter be arrested without a warrant in the course of the interview. I doubt that Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573, 100 S.Ct. 1371, 63 L.Ed.2d 639 (1980), supra, is applicable here because the officers did not enter into the mother’s home to arrest Morgan without a warrant.
To the extent the majority’s holding is limited to a conclusion that Morgan was, in effect, compelled to leave his mother’s house by coercive police conduct not justified by exigent circumstances at the time, bringing about an apparently intended war-rantless arrest, I concur. I think we need go no further. The seizure of the gun, despite its being in “plain view,” was part and parcel of the improper warrantless ar*1169rest situation, and I therefore would affirm the judgment of suppression.