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· 9/15/1982

Commonwealth v. Scalise

Citations

  • 439 N.E.2d 818
  • 387 Mass. 413
  • 1982 Mass. LEXIS 1687

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • declining to adopt “blanket rule” excusing requirement of knock and announce “whenever the objects named in the search warrant are by their nature amenable to ready disposal or destruction”
  • declining to adopt \blanket rule\ excusing requirement to knock and announce \whenever the objects named in the search warrant are by their nature amenable to ready disposal or destruction\
  • ”[C]hanged circumstances would render ineffective the magistrate’s decision that a no knock entry was justified.”
  • \[C]hanged circumstances would render ineffective the magistrate’s decision that a no knock entry was justified.\
  • evidence seized pursuant to search warrant supported by probable cause must be suppressed as matter of common-law rule forbidding police officers from making unannounced entry in absence of limited circumstances permitting exception to knock and announce rule
  • evidence seized pursuant to search warrant supported by probable cause must be suppressed as matter of common-law rule forbidding police officers from making unannounced entry in absence of limited circumstances permitting exception to knock and announce mie

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Judges: Hennessey, Wilkins, Liacos, Abrams, Nolan, Lynch, O'Connor

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