 In a 6–3 decision, the Court reversed and remanded the Second Circuit Court's ruling, stating that it was an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment.Writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy agreed that the" Michigan v. Summers "ruling was broad enough to cover the pursuit and detention of a suspect who had left the scene.However, because none of the law-enforcement interests the earlier holding identified were involved, officers did not have probable cause in this case to detain the suspects a mile away from the scene before the apartment was searched, and it thus added an additional level of intrusiveness