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To: Road Walker who wrote (291385)	6/16/2006 5:45:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580442

I haven't read the decision, or even skimmed it or read much commentary about it yet, so my understanding of it and the issues involved may change. I don't like the idea of routine no knock (or other notice, I don't think it has to literally be a knock) entry in to private homes. I don't think it should be the policy to do so except in certain special situations. OTOH I can't off hand think of any actual constitutional requirement, even an indirect one, to knock. The case arose out of the search of Booker T. Hudson's home in Detroit in 1998. The police announced themselves but did not knock, and after waiting a few seconds, entered his home and seized drugs and a gun. In this particular case they did announce themselves. It wasn't a bash the door down and jump in with no notice, nor was it a case of sneaking in without letting anyone know.