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Sixth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity for Officers in No-Knock Home Entry Case
Loaded on April 19, 2018
by Richard Resch
published in Criminal Legal News
May, 2018, page 32
Filed under:
Search warrants,
Qualified Immunity,
False Arrest,
Fourth Amendment, rights.
Location:
New Jersey.
by Richard Resch
On October 29, 2014, at about 4 a.m., 13 Highland Park, New Jersey, police officers performed a no-knock entry into the Greer family home.
Without knocking or announcing their presence, the officers blasted the door open with a shotgun. All the officers were outfitted …
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