State v. LaPonsie

How courts have described this case

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

• leaving door to home “wide open” does not lower expectation of privacy to the point of extending an invitation for others to enter
• police not entitled to disregard “knock and announce” statute upon hearing screaming children inside the house
• where police went through an open front door and simultaneously announced either “Tucson Police” or “police,” they were held to have violated the Arizona “knock and announce” statute
• announcement and forced entry virtually simultaneous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).