United States v. Kim M. Buckley and Mark R. Herman

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• concluding that stating “I don’t know if I need an attorney” was insufficient to invoke right to counsel
• ruling that officers executing a search warrant would have been justified in dispensing with knocking and announcing when entering a trailer believed to contain firearms and a pit bull
• determining that “exigent circumstances” excused knock and announce where “the officers knew that the defendants possessed a pit bull and firearms”
• noting that informant—who wanted to curry favor with the officer who pulled her over for a traffic violation and discovered cocaine—spoke against her penal interest when admitting that she purchased cocaine from the defendants, and such actions indicated credibility
• excusing police from “any requirement of arousing armed defendants, or [their pit bull]”
• fact that informant had seen cocaine, a triple beam scale, and packaging materials was sufficient probable cause for a warrant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).