Commonwealth v. Viar

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “the ‘knock and announce’ doctrine does not apply when law enforcement personnel have gained entry into a dwelling by consent, because no force is used under such circumstances”
• “It is irrelevant that the police gained entry by ruse or stratagem, as long as the consent to enter was not revoked prior to the police identifying themselves.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).