Can police come to your house and arrest you without a warrant?

Question

What are the odds?

Answer 1

Goes to probably cause.  If there is reason to believe you might be a danger, then yes, to stop an immediate threat, they can.  Just as a suspect, they need a warrant.

Answer 2

They can come and arrest you, or even just give you a ticket. They can't search your house without a warrant, unless maybe they have "probable cause."

Answer 3

Yes if you are guilty however they cannot >enter< your house if you are not guilty and are a suspect without a warrant unless they have physical evidence at the scene of your house to allow themselves in such as intense music pass 11pm or gun shots fired.

Hope this helps,

Craig.

Answer 4

Yes, if they are in hot pursuit or have reasonable cause to believe that a crime is being committed in your house, i.e. a neighbor has reported shots fired.

Answer 5

If you mean when there is no warrant (you don't have to have the actual warrant in hand), I think if that happened, you would probably be expecting it. There are several ways it could happen. One is if there is reason to believe you will flee before a warrant could be obtained for a felony. This is a little weak when you're in your house, since someone can contain you while someone else gets the warrant. In a very small jurisdiction, though, it could be justified if there was no one else.

It could also be if you are "in imminent commission of a felony." Basically, this would be if you had just committed the crime. The time period is not specific, but it certainly includes hot pursuit.

Many states' family violence laws authorize arrest without warrant and require police to hunt you down. Some are written in such a way that you really can arrest without a warrant for an indefinite period, although the practice is to get it as soon as practical.

And, of course, if they are there lawfully and see you in the commission of a crime, warrantless arrest is authorized.

There are other situations in which police could enter and take you into custody, but they're not arrests.

There are variations among the states, but that's it in general.  

Answer 6

If you have committed an offense and police locate you at home of course they can arrest you.  

Answer 7

Short Answer: YES!

Provided they have "exigent circumstances."  The best example of exigent circumstance is the following:

Police officers get a call from a house from a crying wife who says her husband is beating her.  No warrant is required to enter that home (if the police arrive immediately after the call, they can't wait, say, several days or even hours).

Exigent circumstances arise when there is clear evidence of probable cause (call from crying wife); the seriousness of the offense, and likelihood of destruction of evidence; limitations on the search to minimize the intrusion only to preventing destruction of evidence.

NOTE: Warrantless entries have nothing to do with guilt.  Guilt is determined in a court of law by either a jury of the accused peers, by a judge of the accused waives his or her right to a jury, or by pleading guilty to the court.  

Regarding your question about "the odds,"  there are too many factors to determine the odds of something like this happening.  Sorry.