United States v. William Henry Myers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a five- month gap between when police received the tip and when a search warrant was obtained did not render the information stale
• recognizing defendant, as juvenile, had been implicated in fire bombing and had been convicted of possessing fire bomb and unregistered firearm
• recognizing that the “use of a ‘flashbang’ device in a house where innocent and unsuspecting children sleep gives us great pause,” but ultimately determining that “we cannot say that their actions were objectively unreasonable” under the Fourth Amendment
• upholding district court’s conclusion that agents who knocked loudly and waited ten seconds before entering complied with the Fourth Amendment
• upholding district court’s conclusion that agents who knocked loudly and waited ten seconds before entering complied with the Fourth Amendment
• rejecting the routine use of flash-bang devices when executing search warrants, but finding a particular use of a flash- bang device was justified because the suspect had a lengthy history of criminal activity, including a conviction for fire-bombing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).