Samuel P. Jackson v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing Massachusetts common law “knock and announce” requirement: “[T]he officers’ bare announcement, ‘Sam, police,’ did not ‘notify the [occupant] ... that they demanded admission to his apartment for the purpose of arresting him.’ ”
• “The government cannot be faulted for deficiencies having no prejudicial effect.”
• interpreting a Massachusetts statute under Ker and Miller
• mere ten second pause not unreasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).