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· 4/19/1989

Zuni Indian Tribe v. United States

Citations

  • 16 Cl. Ct. 670
  • 1989 U.S. Claims LEXIS 66
  • 1989 WL 38936

How courts have described this case

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

  • addressing seven major categories of error asserted by some or all of the defendants
  • finding constructive refusal of admittance where the house was small, the occupants were awake, officers waited twenty seconds after knocking and announcing and before entering, and narcotics were present
  • “The need to force entry may result from danger to the safety of the entering officers or from the imminent destruction of evidence.”
  • “The need to force entry may result from danger to the safety of the entering officers or from the imminent destruction of evidence.”
  • when defendant is convicted of substantive offense based on Pinkerton liability, he may be sentenced on the basis of aggregate amount of drugs involved in each count of conviction, based on jury's findings
  • standard of review for factual determinations

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Judges: Napier

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