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Thirty Seconds is Long Enough Under Jersey’s Knock and Announce Rule

July 30th, 2009

In State v. Robinson, decided on July 22, 2009, the New Jersey Supreme Court upheld as reasonable a police search where officers waited twenty to thirty seconds after announcing their presence before they knocked down the door to the defendant’s apartment to execute a search warrant.  Anyone who is the subject of a police investigation [...]

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