"Knock and Announce" Case

In Hudson v. Michigan the Supreme Court yesterday held that evidence from a search need not be suppressed although the police violated the "knock and announce" rule." The officers had a warrant and they announced their presence, but they did not knock and they waited only a few seconds before walking through the home's unlocked door.

Robert Ambrogi at Law.com summarizes commentary by several bloggers. Some worry that the case signals the decline (or death) of the exclusionary rule.

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