Supreme Court· 3/4/1998

United States v. Ramirez

Citations

523 U.S. 65
118 S. Ct. 992
140 L. Ed. 2d 191
1998 U.S. LEXIS 1600

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holding that the lawfulness of entry and existence of probable cause concerns only what the officers had reason to believe at the time of their entry
holding that the validity under the Fourth Amendment of a no-knock entry does not depend on whether it results in the destruction of property
holding that the same standards apply in both contexts to claims of exigency excusing the failure to knock and announce
holding that section 3109 “includes an 4 Another statute regulating the execution of warrants is 21 U.S.C. § 879 (2000
holding that \[e]xcessive or unnecessary property destruction during a search may violate the Fourth Amendment . . .\
concluding that breaking a garage window for the purposes of pointing a gun inside constitutes an ʺentryʺ, but finding that exigent circumstances justified dispensing with the knock‐and‐announce requirement

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Judges: Rehnquist, Rehnqtjist

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