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Civil Rights: Fourth Amendment-Knock-And-Announce Rule-Qualified Immunity
Staff Report//July 1, 2019//
Civil Rights: Fourth Amendment-Knock-And-Announce Rule-Qualified Immunity
Staff Report//July 1, 2019//
Listen to this articleWhere a parolee brought a Fourth Amendment claim of violation of his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures after officers entered his hotel room without knocking or announcing their presence, the denial of qualified immunity to the officers is reversed and remanded because it was not clearly established law that failing to knock and announce before entering the dwelling of a parolee was unlawful.
Judgment is reversed.
Lane v. Nading ((MLW No. 73408/Case No. 18-2194 – 8 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Melloy, J.) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Western District of Arkansas, J.
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