Parsley v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that advance judicial approval does not excuse compliance with state law knock-and- announce requirements
• holding that advance judicial approval does 11 not excuse compliance with state law knock-and-announce requirements
• holding that the magistrate was without power to pre-authorize violation of knock and announce requirement, observing, “the key to permissible unannounced entry is knowledge of exigent circumstances possessed by police officers at the time of entry”
• addressing prosecution’s argument that district court’s reliance on no-knock warrant was harmless error because police were reacting to perceived “demonstrable emergency”
• “the key to permissible unannounced entry is the knowledge of exigent circumstances possessed by police officers at the time of entry. Thus, from the viewpoint of a court reviewing justification for an unannounced entry after the fact, a warrant authorizing such action adds nothing.”
• ‘the key to permissible unannounced entry is the knowledge of exigent circumstances possessed by police officers at the time of entry. Thus, from the viewpoint of a court reviewing justification for an unannounced entry after the fact, a warrant authorizing such action adds nothing.’

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