and searched. A set of car keys was found in his front pocket. Defendant was taken to the sheriffs department and charged in relation to the death and injuries of the motorcyclists. A chemical test would later show Defendant’s blood alcohol content to be O.14. {6} Before trial, Defendant filed a motion to suppress, arguing that the deputies’ entry into his home was in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article II, Section 10 of the New Mexico Constitution. The district court denied the motion to suppress and concluded that, under the emergency assistance doctrine, the deputies’ warrantless entry into the home was justified by the deputies’ concern for Defendant’s safety. See State v. Ryon, 2005-NMSC-005, ¶¶ 27, 39, 137 N.M. 174, 108 P.3d 1032 (<HOLDING>). The case proceeded to trial, and Defendant
holding that an illegal arrest occurred when the defendant was transported without probable cause from his home to the police station for fingerprinting and that the line is crossed when the police without probable cause or a warrant forcibly remove a person from his home or other place in which he is entitled to be and transport him to the police station where he is detained although briefly for investigative purposes recognizing emergency exception holding that police officers may enter a home without a warrant or consent under the emergency assistance doctrine when police have reasonable grounds to believe that there is an emergency at hand and an immediate need for their assistance for the protection of life or property recognizing that the community caretaking exception is distinct from the emergency aid or emergency assistance exception to the fourth amendment warrant requirement holding that the victims statements to a 911 operator while the perpetrator was in the home were nontestimonial because their primary purpose was to enable police assistance to meet an ongoing emergency