Commonwealth v. Kitchener

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, absent exigent circumstances, a police officer executing a warrant must give notice of identity and announce his purpose prior to entering a private residence
• holding that, absent exigent circumstances, a police officer executing a warrant must give notice of identity and announce his purpose prior to entering a private residence
• defendant, who had little or no criminal history, shared house with fugitive boyfriend with long criminal history; defendant constructively possessed drugs found in freezer, under living room chair and under a bed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).