 About/Masthead - Archive - Blurbs - Contact - Exposure Links - Services - Submissions by Ken Krimstein MR. MORAN: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court: Over the last 50 years, courts in virtually every American jurisdiction have suppressed evidence seized inside homes following knock-and-announce violations -- including this Court, on two occasions. Those suppression orders reflect an understanding of two points key to this appeal. The first point is that the manner of entry -- and, in particular, a knock-and-announce violation -- is not somehow independent of the police activity that occurs inside the house. And, as this Court directly recognized in Wilson, the reasonableness of police activity inside a home is dependent on the manner of the police entry. JUSTICE ALITO: Do you have form MV-302? MR. MORAN: Uh, no. CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Back to the beginning of the line. Next case.  About - Archive - Blurbs - Contact - Exposure Links - Services - Submissions |