· 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
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- 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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