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Supreme Court Ruling: Knock-and-Announce
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Arguably the most important decision from the United States Supreme Court in decades on the law of search and seizure was handed down in June 2006. The court, hi a 5-4 decision, ruled hi Hudson v. Michigan that police officers with search warrants may enter homes without knocking and without the risk of having any seized evidence thrown out at trial.
Like many other cases that have become milestones in the evolving law of search and seizure, the facts in Hudson involve a relatively minor drug arrest. Around 3:30 a.m. on the afternoon of Aug. 27, 1998, Detroit officers executed a warrant at the residence of Booker T. Hudson Jr. The officers approached the home and shouted, "Police, …
