STEELMAN, Judge.
Where defendant took an unusually long time to answer the door at his residence, weapons were known to be inside the residence, and defendant's own actions led him to be arrested in the open doorway, deputies had a reasonable belief that the residence may have harbored an individual posing a danger to the deputies. The trial court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress evidence recovered as a result of the deputies' protective sweep.
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